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Police find cocaine, arrest driver after SW Kan. head-on crash

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SEWARD COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a weekend head-on crash that sent on man to the hospital and another to jail.

emergency responders were dispatched to the 200 block of West Pancake Boulevard for a reported injury accident. Responding officers found a pickup and semi truck had collided head on.

Just after 11:30 p.m. Saturday, a 2012 Ford F-250 driven by a 24-year-old man was eastbound on Pancake Boulevard in Liberal, according to Police Captain Patrick McClurg.

 The Ford crossed the center line in the path of a westbound 2008 Peterbilt semi-tractor and trailer. The vehicles collided head on. The 32-year-old male driver of the Peterbilt was transported to Southwest Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries.

Investigators determined the driver of the Ford showed signs of impairment related to the consumption of alcohol. He was subsequently arrested. During a search subsequent to the arrest, a small quantity of suspected cocaine was located.

Police booked him into the Seward County Jail for aggravated battery, driving under the influence with a prior conviction, possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended license, driving left of center, and no seat belt. An affidavit was submitted to the Seward County Attorney’s Office seeking formal charges.

McClurg did not release names of the drivers.

Battle of the Brews: Win Brews on the Bricks tickets!

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Stop in at Kaiser Liquor and purchase these four different brews available in singles…then vote for your favorite at HaysPost.com. At the end of four weeks, somebody is going to win a pair of tickets to Brews on the Bricks.

It is your chance to purchase just a single bottle or can and not the whole six pack. Who knows? You might find a new favorite.

Battle of the Brews at Kaiser Liquor…your chance to buy these unique beers in singles this week at Kaiser Liquor!

Michael Leroy Gebhart

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Michael Leroy Gebhart, age 65, of Ogallah, passed away, Sunday, April 21, 2019, at his home.

Services are pending with Schmitt Funeral Home, WaKeeney.

OPINION: On farms and ranches, every day is Earth Day 
 

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State Executive Director
USDA Photo by Preston Keres

By DAVID SCHEMM
Kansas Farm Service Agency State Executive Director
and
KAREN WOODRICH
Natural Resources Conservation Service Kansas State Conservationist

At USDA, we celebrate Earth Day 2019 by offering big thank-yous to farmers and ranchers here in Kansas for all they do. Every day we see their efforts to conserve natural resources while producing food, fiber and fuel for people in their communities and around the world. They are doing what needs to be done to make sure we all enjoy the benefits of clean and plentiful water and healthy soils, ecosystems and wildlife habitat.

This year’s Earth Day theme, “Protect Our Species,” highlights the responsibility we share in supporting wildlife. Two-thirds of the land in the continental United States is privately owned, and the decisions that farmers and ranchers make for their land can impact wildlife.

Working lands are what Kansas is made of.  These lands work to support healthy families by providing abundant food, healthy soils, clean water and abundant wildlife. Kansas farmers, ranchers, and forest owners are keenly aware of the value of crop production, prairie ecosystems, and forests and have made great strides to protect their natural resource in harmony with day-to-day operations.  Earth Day provides an opportunity to recognize the conservationists we have in our backyards, our neighborhoods, and up and down our beautiful landscape.

We at USDA believe people and wildlife can thrive together. USDA’s Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service assist agricultural producers with adopting conservation practices that benefit not only farms, ranches and forest lands but wildlife species. In Kansas as well as across the nation, producers and landowners have played and continue to play important roles in helping wildlife species flourish, rebound or recover.

Kansas landowners have been instrumental in preserving the largest remaining population of Lesser Prairie Chicken within their original five state native range of the species.  Through Farm Service Agency, Kansas landowners enrolled over 1.1 million acres of native grass cover into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the heart of the Lesser Prairie Chicken native range, thus helping to remove the species from the endangered listing. Native covers under the CRP program offers Lesser Prairie Chicken ideal habitat for brood and nesting habitat especially when located adjacent to native rangeland and cropland.

NRCS’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program through a Regional Conservation Partnership Program with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provides a great opportunity for ranchers and farmers to develop and improve working lands for Monarch butterflies. Monarch butterfly migration is under way and the first monarch was spotted in Kansas on April 7, according to Journey North. If you see a monarch now and its color seems a little pale or faded, there is a good chance it has flown in from Mexico.  Monarch butterflies are a species with a declining population that need milkweeds to lay their eggs and wildflowers to feed on their nectar.  Kansas rangelands, roadsides, and odd areas are typical places to find milkweeds. To learn more about managing your land for monarchs or pollinators, contact NRCS at your local USDA Service Center.

USDA offers a wide array of Farm Bill programs to help Kansas producers make wildlife-friendly improvements to croplands, grazing lands and working forests, as well as benefit agricultural operations. Programs include the Conservation Reserve Program, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. USDA also offers free conservation advice as well and financial assistance to help implement conservation practices.

If you farm or ranch, we encourage you to reach out to your local FSA and NRCS representatives at your nearest USDA service center to see if there is a program right for your operation. If you’re not a farmer or rancher, on this Earth Day please thank one for the work he or she does to put food on our tables and to conserve our natural resources and support our nation’s wildlife.

Alice A. (Weeks) Pratt

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Alice A. (Weeks) Pratt passed away on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at the Sheridan County Health Complex LTC, after a lifetime of living in Sheridan County. Alice was born March 10, 1927 to Clarence and Pearl (Godfrey) Weeks, the third of seven children. She attended school in Hoxie graduating from Sheridan County High School. Alice attended Fort Hays State University to obtain a teaching certificate during war years and taught in several rural schools in the area.

Alice married James “Jimmy” E. Pratt on May 17, 1948 in Seguin, Kansas. Two children, Charles “Chuck” and Karen completed the family. After marrying, Alice joined the Catholic Church and was a member of Sodality. The family lived on the family ranch for the first years of their marriage and later moved to Hoxie.

Alice always enjoyed working and her jobs. She babysat until her own children graduated from high school. She worked for many years for the Hoxie Sale Barn cooking the meals on sale days. She was a clerk at the Ben Franklin Store and at the Hoxie Stop 2 Shop. She enjoyed seeing and visiting with the people who came into the businesses. At the Stop to Shop, Alice opened the store early in the morning. The regulars enjoyed seeing her each morning. After retirement, Alice would mention how she loved to work and had a wish to go back to work. When she was not working, she loved to cook and taught many to make pies. She was a seamstress and enjoyed sewing and making clothes for her children. She liked flowers especially red roses

Alice is survived by her son, Charles “Chuck” and his wife Diane of Hoxie, Kansas; daughter, Karen Deibert of Hoxie, Kansas; brothers, Bill Weeks of Hoxie, Kansas, and Murl Weeks and wife Anita of Oklahoma; sister-in-law, Judy Weeks; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy; parents, Clarence and Pearl Weeks; Infant Grandson, Shane Pratt; brother, Al Weeks; sister, Violet Rogers, Marge Thaden, and infant sister, Nellie Weeks.

A Mass of Christian Burial is planned for Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 10:30 A.M. at the St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Hoxie, Kansas. A visitation will be held on Monday, April 22, 2019, at Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home from 2:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. with a Vigil Service at 7:00 P.M. There will be a private family inurnment at a later day. The family has chosen the Sheridan County Health Complex LTC or the Sheridan County Benefit Walk as memorials. Memorials may be sent in care of Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home, PO Box 987, Hoxie, Kansas 67740. Online condolences may be left at mickeyleopoldfuneral.com

Alice loved to work, her family, visiting with people, and especially “doing things her way”. She has gone home to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. Every step of the way she did ‘things her way”.

Anthony Souchek

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Saturday, March 31st, 1945 – Sunday, April 21st, 2019

An obituary and services are pending with Baalmann Mortuary.

Kan. man sentenced after father-in-law dies in drug test scam

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 35-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to prison after his father-in-law died while taking methadone to help the younger man cheat on a drug test.

Justin Jones -photo Douglas County

Justin Jones was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the 2017 death of 47-year-old Eric Everts. Both men lived in Baldwin City.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Jones also pleaded guilty in January to distribution of methadone.

As part of his treatment for drug addiction, Jones was required to turn in urine samples containing nothing but methadone, which treats opioid addiction.

Baldwin City investigators said in an affidavit that for months Everts took methadone and provided otherwise clean urine samples, which Jones submitted as his own. Everts was found dead at his home in September 2017.

Edward Paul Younger

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Edward Paul Younger, 87, of McPherson, Kansas, passed away at 12:16 p.m., Saturday, April 20th, 2019 while in the company of family members, at Via Christi St. Francis, Wichita, Kansas.

Ed was born in Hays, Kansas on April 24, 1931, a son of Peter and Katherine (Pfannenstiel) Younger.

He was a devoted member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in McPherson.

Through the years Ed worked for the International Harvester Company as a dealer in WaKeeney, Kansas and worked for Farm Bureau as an Agency Manager in McPherson, Kansas until he retired in 2001.

Ed enjoyed golfing, spending time with his family and grandchildren.

He is survived by the love of his life Dorothy Younger, of McPherson, Kansas; his children, Lonnie Younger and his wife Cindy, of Franklin, Tennessee; Leon Younger and his wife Katherine, of Brownsburg, Indiana; LeRoy Younger and his partner Steven Spillers, of Topeka, Kansas; Tami Kaegi and her husband Grant, of Lenexa, Kansas; his brothers Frank Younger, of Hays, Kansas; Norman Younger, of Hays, Kansas; brother Richard Younger and his wife Betty, of Hays, Kansas; sisters Mary Dreiling and her husband Bob, of Hays, Kansas and sister Cora Sawazhki, of Topeka, Kansas.

He is also survived by 11 grandchildren, Jenny Pietrzak(David), Amy Flynn(Ed), Greg Younger(Lindsey), Will Younger(Noelle), John Younger, Caitlin Montgomery(Norm), Sarah Durham(Keaton), Rachel Schlichter(Kyle), Megan Leiker(Patrick), John Kaegi(Amanda) and Rachel Green(Daniel).
18 great-grandchildren, Sam, MacKenzie, Henry, Jackson, Charlie, Max, Reese, Rhett, Ocean, Lark, McCartney, Edison, Charlotte, Kennedi, Pierce, Lincoln, Lucy, Kaden.

Ed was preceded in death by his parents and his four brothers.

Visitation will be held at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, McPherson, Kansas on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Rosary will start at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, McPherson, Kansas with a Mass of Christian to start at 10:00 a.m with Fr. Ben Shockey officiating.

A private family burial will be held at the McPherson Cemetery, McPherson, Kansas.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church or The Lords Diner and they can be sent to Glidden-Ediger Funeral Home; 222 W. Euclid St., McPherson, Kansas 67460.

Frances Jean Flagor

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Frances Jean Flagor, 82, died April 19, 2019, at Clara Barton Hospital, Hoisington. She was born

January 27, 1937, in Barton County, the daughter of Robert E. and Aurelia (Schugart) Connor. Jean graduated from Hoisington High School in 1955.

She married Jackie Edward Shreve in 1955, he preceded her in death on November 16, 1960. She then married Reuben Flagor on April 28, 1962, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Hoisington.

A lifetime Barton County resident, Jean a mother of six children, she began working part time at the Hoisington Dispatch after the children were in school. She later went on to work for Fuller Brush and Superior Essex, and finally for the Eldercare Program from which she retired.

Jean was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and Altar Society. Jean was an avid gardener, quilter, card player, and gambler. She and Reuben loved to travel to the many nearby casinos together.

Survived by her husband of nearly 57 years, Reuben; and children, Jack Flagor and wife Sherri of Hays, Janet Palmer of Dumfries, Virginia, Ron Flagor and wife Mary Ann of Pensacola, Florida, David Flagor of Kansas City, Missouri, Earl Flagor and wife Julia of Hoisington, and Robert Flagor of Kansas City, Missouri; brother, John Connor of Ellinwood; sisters, Loretta Ulrey of Larned, and Barbara Lehning of Logan; 15 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren and one more on the way.

Preceded in death by parents, husband, Jackie Shreve; brothers, Robert and Jim Connor, and sisters, Margaret Ehrlich and Mary Lou Komarek.

Friends may call noon to 8 p.m., Monday at the funeral home with Vigil with Altar Society Rosary will be 7 p.m., Monday at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home Chapel. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Hoisington, celebrated by Father Charles Mazouch. Burial will follow in St. John Church Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Kans for Kids in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.

Billie D. Bartley

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Smith Center resident Billie D. Bartley passed away at his home on April 20, 2019. He was 83.

He was born March 22, 1936 in Inavale, NE the son of Forest and Sarah D. (Williams) Bartley.

Billie was united in marriage to Lorraine R. Stevens on November 27, 1957 in Phillips County, KS. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include his two Daughters, Arlene Stone of Hastings, NE and Marlyce Gordier of Elm Creek; a son, Tim Bartley of Smith Center, KS; three brothers, Darral of Ravenna, NE, Alan of Formoso, KS and Jerry of Aurora NE; two sisters, Twila Bydler of Wakeeney, KS and Sharon Kaslon of Loup City, NE; 10 grandchidren; and 18 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 10 :30 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2019 in the Central Community Church, Smith Center, KS, with Pastor’s Casey Borger and Douglas Deneui officiating. Burial will follow in the Agra Cemetery, Agra, KS.

Mr. Barley will lie in state from Noon until 9 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, 1115 2nd Street, Phillipsburg, KS 67661, with the family receiving friends Tuesday evening from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. for visitation.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Central Community Church or the Parkinson’s Heartland Foundation.

Donald W. Sherman

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Donald W. Sherman, 81, Ness City, Kansas, died Friday, April 19, 2019, at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas.

Mr. Sherman was born November 28, 1937, in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, the son of Lyle Bert and Iva Matilda (Smith) Sherman. He was a resident of Penrose, Colorado, moving briefly to La Crosse, Kansas, before becoming a resident of Cedar Village, Ness City, Kansas, in February, 2018. A 1956 graduate of Mansfield High School, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, he was a system installer for Cable Television for 44 years before his retirement.

He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corp. and the Army National Guard.

On July 23, 1965, he married Sharon Burdick at Florida, Massachusetts.

Survivors include: his wife, Sharon Sherman, Buffalo, Oklahoma; three sons, Donald Sherman (Sue), Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Wes Sherman (Rhoda), La Crosse, Kansas, and Russell Sherman (Claudia), Corpus Christi, Texas; one daughter, Tammy Foster (Nic), Buffalo, Oklahoma; 11 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; four brothers, Lynn Sherman, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, Joseph Sherman, Tioga, Pennsylvania, Milton Sherman, Troy, Pennsylvania, and Walter Sherman, Mansfield, Pennsylvania; and two sisters, Delphine Copp, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and Mable Bradley, Mansfield, Pennsylvania.

He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son, Dale Sherman; one brother, Arthur Sherman; and one sister, Dorothy Smith.

Visitation will be Monday, April 22, 2019, from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at the Janousek Funeral Home, La Crosse, Kansas, with the family receiving friends from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.

Church visitation will be Tuesday, April 23, 2019, from 9:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. at the First Christian Church, La Crosse, Kansas.

Funeral service will be Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at 10:00 A.M. at the First Christian Church, La Crosse, Kansas, with Pastor Mark Sizemore officiating. Interment will be in the La Crosse City Cemetery, La Crosse, Kansas.

In lieu of flowers or plants, the family request memorials to Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas.

Condolences or remembrances may be left for the family at www.charterfunerals.com/locations/janousek-lacrosse.php.

Arrangements were by Janousek Funeral Home, 719 Pine Street, P O Box 550, La Crosse, Kansas 67548, 785/222-2517.

Daniel Gordon Eldridge

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Daniel Gordon Eldridge, age 55, of Hays, Kansas passed away Friday, April 19, 2019 at Hays Medical Center. He was born January 7, 1964 in Inglewood, California to Robert Gordon and Judith Ann (Beach) Eldridge. Daniel enjoyed Music, Sports, beach Life especially surfing.

He is survived by his parents, Judy and Larry Cox of Lancaster, California; his wife, Chris Klinger of Hays; a daughter, Anna Moore of Ellis, Kansas; two brothers, Richard Cox and Jeremy Cox both of Hays and two sisters, Deborah Pierce of Russell Springs, Kentucky and Darlene Eldridge of California.

He was preceded in death by his father.

A Celebration of Daniel’s life will be 6 PM Monday, April 22, 2019 at Westview Church 3000 W 41st St in Hays.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions are suggested to Samaritan’s Purse www.samaritanspurse.org

Services in care of Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601. Condolences may be left by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]

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