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THE IOLA REGISTER, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1979 4 V. S' "f' 4 v. fate krAt; 1 Y'y x- 'X vs A frightening lapse commitment will be to depreciate still further Carters tattered reputation as a leader. Because the action or inaction seems to reinforce the criticism that the administration has been indecisive in dealing with energy, the pressure on Carter to take dramatic steps was increased yesterday. He now must not only present a bold program but also overcome the impression of helplessness that the cancellation left.

It was a mysterious and miserable performance that further weakened our position as leader of the energyconsuming nations of the world. OHSlDhlEy, HOW COULP WOT OUR FIRST-BORN MALE CHUD'" Gas lines irk an Iraqi President Carters decision on Wednesday to cancel his scheduled Thursday appearance on nationwide television to talk about the energy situation is highly disturbing. It is disturbing because it will give birth to fear and speculation throughout the free world just at a time when the need for reassurance created by deliberate action is great. Wednesdays announcement of the cancellation made not by the president or even by the White House press secretary, but by a deputy carried no explanation and was an invitation to assume the worst. The consequence of this last-minute backing away from an advertised Progress and What Iola needs most is a deeper Coon Creek.

Yesterday afternoons thunderstorm sent that overgrown drainage ditch spilling out over its banks into homes, over streets and so deep onto State Street that traffic there was diverted for several hours. The downpour was a heavy rain of 2.59 inches, but it was not an unusual rain. Coon Creek flooded last week, too. And it has closed State Street for brief periods of time in the recent past. It is time to do something about it, because the problem is going to get worse each year as more and more of the watershed drained by this mini-stream is paved or roofed over.

Flooding on Coon Creek has become progressively worse over the past decade because, along with other reasons, there has been substantial development in the northeast quarter of Iola. The junior college was the Tagaya of the Secretariat said that would mean some lines here as you have outside. Reis made no comment on Bafis proposal for diplomats-only gas stations, an arrangement that would require heavy police guards to protect them from New Yorkers already burned up because diplomatic vehicles are exempt from parking regulations. But he pointed out that New York is extremely fortunate in having a very good transportation system. Reis also reminded the other delegates that life is not always easy in their hometowns.

There are many places in the world where the local diplomats experience difficulties because of local conditions power shortages, water shortages and confusion due to civil disobedience, he said. Nobody made specific mention of Iraqs membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which has increased the UNITED NATIONS (AP) Iraqs delegates tc the United Nations are angry because the oil squeeze their government help put on the United States is forcing U.N diplomats to wait in line at the gas station. A U.S. delegate suggested that the diplomats take the subway or the bus. Iraq called a meeting Thursday of the U.N.

Commmittee on Relations with the Host Country the United States so that its chief deputy delegate to the world organization, Saib A. K. Bafi, could complain that he and his colleagues were waiting in line as much as four hours to buy gasoline when they should be carrying out their official duties. He suggested that some New York filling stations be reserved for diplomats only. Or that they be allowed to fill up at the U.N.

headquarters pump now reserved for the 20 Secretariat trucks. U.S. Delegate Herbert K. Reis said his office would support an application for the allocation of more gas to the U.N. pump.

But Yoshio 'I The firecracker criterion Skylab may fall Wednesday WASHINGTON (AP) Skylabs time is running out fast. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration believes the 77.5-ton craft will crash into the atmosphere sometime next week, most likely Wednesday. The North American Air Defense Command in Colorado, which has been tracking the 118-foot-long space derelict, predicted earlier in the week that the re-entry would be between July 10 and July 14, with Thursday the most likely date. But NORAD advanced its projection one day Thursday to the July 9-13 period, with the target date of July n. The low point of Skylabs orbit Thursday was 133 miles above earth, six miles less than the day before.

The high point was 144.8 miles, three miles higher than Wedensday. Skylabs final plunge will begin when it hits the thickening atmosphere. Meanwhile, the State Department has alerted key personnel around the world to be set to provide last-minute Skylab information to their host governments. We have been in continuous contact with the posts for some months now and they have been provided all of the information that has been released by NASA, said a State Department official, who asked that he not be identified. We have requested that each of our posts identify key personnel who will be available for providing Skylab information.

Such information wont be available until the final hours of Skylabs life. Then, NASA says, it will be possible to identify the orbital path in which Skylab can be expected to re-enter. Wheat futures take big jump in Kansas city KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -Increases in the gold and silver markets apparently prompted a similar climb in futures for golden grain Thursday. Winter wheat futures jumped 20 to 22 cents at the Kansas City Board of Trade.

Trading for July wheat was up 22 cents to $4.43 Thursday, September contracts posted a 20'4-cent gain to December was up 203 cents to March jumped 2m to 4 and May was up 20 cents to $4.50. The world appears a little fearful that we'll take off again on inflation, and an ounce of gold buys more wheat today than it did yesterday," said Roderick Turnbull, spokesman for the Board of Trade. Turnbull says continuing reports of a poor wheat crop in the Soviet Union also has boosted grain prices. Fluctuations in the generally bullish wheat futures market has made farmers very cautious sellers, Turnbull added. The market indicated today (Thursday) that it is recovering from that break we had two weeks ago.

First it went up too fast, then down too fast, and now its coming back. Concerned about whales WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is set to propose an indefinite moratorium on all commercial whaling next week in London before the International Whaling Commission. However, Richard Frank, U.S. whaling commissioner said Thursday, There are enough whaling countries to block the vote on the U.S. proposal.

He predicted approval of a complete moratorium will be very difficult." The whaling commission is a 22-nation group that seeks to regulate global whaling. The whaling commission has reduced the commercial kill of whales by member nations in the last five years from about 40,000 per year to 20,000, but Frank said this is insufficient to protect whales. THE IOLA REGISTER USPS 268-440 Published live afternoons a week and Saturday mornings, except Memorial i Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, y'ol Register Publishing Company, di I67, Zlp 4474,1 Area Cod 3,4 Dla! 365-2111. Second class postage paid at Emerson Lynn Editor and Publisher. Axlted Press.

The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use or publication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. Subscription rates by carrier In Iola, Center, Moran and vance 300 per Payable In ad- U.S. leaders have logged a lot of miles since FDR first flew 51 1 Of all the gaps that separate the generations the firecracker gap must be the gappiest. Only children enjoy firecrackers. Adults get a bang out of sky-rockets, pinwheels, star shells and fireboards that draw out the flag in colored flame.

They will tolerate cannon shots. But they dont like firecrackers. This truth is absolute. A person becomes an adult when he begins to dislike firecrackers. Likewise, a Just being helpful Coon Creek beginning.

Since then there has been a steady year-by-year increase in residential construction. As each house, driveway and street has been completed the rate of run-off has increased. The amount of rain it takes to push the creek out of its banks decreases as the square feet of area covered with waterproof paving or roofing increases. There is even a geometric quality to the inverse ratio because the sponge-like pasture that used to absorb the falling rain is being subtracted as the impervious coverings are being added. Since further construction on the watershed is underway and can be expected to continue, the need for a drainage canal through Iola will grow each year and the damage done during each heavy rain is likely to increase.

Times awasting. firecrackerophile confesses by that predilection he remains a child. Since adults write the laws which govern the sale and use of fireworks it flows from the above relevation that firecrackers would be universally banned and only fireworks that produced a pretty display of sparkling colors would be allowed. That such is not the case provides an index of the degree to which societies are held in thrall by their children. The same one where you are congratulating the Iola Mustangs and urging Iolans to show up for a pep rally on the square March 14 and get on board a non-profit chartered bus to go to Junction City for an 8 p.m.

game. Your calendar is off, too. wheat high The high yields have not dampened the wheat futures trading at the Kansas City Board of Trade, however. Contracts for hard red winter wheat futures jumped 20 to 22 cents across the board Thursday. July contracts closed at $4.43 and elevators were paying $3.90 to $4 a bushel for wheat on the farm.

Keith Reimer, whose family has grown wheat near Albert, for 103 years, says one 260-acre section of his farm yielded 51 bui els an acre this week the biggest yield since his ancestors settled there. Reimer attributes his bumper crop to near perfect spring and summer weather. A1 Gholson, a spokesman for the National Weather Service in Dodge City, agrees. He says heavy snows last winter and the cold temperatures delayed the crop about two weeks, but heavy rains arrived at just the proper stage of development. Wheat fields in about half the state remain to be cut and several northern counties reported Thursday their wheat was beginning to ripen.

Most wheat south of a line from Dodge City to Great Bend to Salina had been harvested by Thursday. Fuel supplies were reported adequate across the state, but some storage problems were reported in the Garden City and Dodge City areas. FOUND ARE FREE price of crude oil more than 40 percent in the past year and restricts production to keep the price up. But Fermin Zelada of Spain said perhaps U.N. diplomats could count on the generosity of the petroleum-producing countries, who might provide the needs.

The committee adjourned until Monday without taking any action. Afterward a member of the U.S. mission said arrangements had already been made for U.N. diplomats to get exemption from New Yorks odd-even system of gas purchase by applying to the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Bafi told a reporter his delegation has about 10 official cars, its diplomats commute four times a day between U.N.

headquarters and their embassy 55 blocks away, and they go to Kennedy Airport periodically to send or pick up diplomatic pouches. We are using a lot of gas, he said. We have to stand in line, and this is all affecting our work. Ronald L. Ziegler, Nixons press secretary, intercepted both calls and told Haldeman that there would be no last-minute pardons.

As the plane flew across central Missouri, Ford became president and Air Force One, for the balance of the flight, became SAM (for Special Air Missions) )7000. During the flight to California, Nixon wandered to the rear compartment that normally housed reporters and photographers on Air Force One. No press contingent was aboard and Nixon reportedly announced: It certainly smells better back here. President Truman, often at odds with the late Sen. Robert A.

Taft, R-Ohio, often asked to be alerted when his plane was over Tafts home state. Thus prompted, Truman would visit the lavatory, then order the pilot to activate the waste disposal system. There are more than 17 million tractors at work in the world, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Some 12 million are used on North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Schmaus worked with his father from 1966 until his death. Except for those eight years, Schmaus has practiced alone. And he wouldnt change that. Unless I could practice with my son again. Those were delightful days, he said.

Medicine and his family fill the days for Schmaus. I dont have any hobbies. Thats why I work so much, he said. Schmaus will be honored for all his work at a reception for the public Sunday. He will be presented a special award from the Iola Area Giamber of Commerce by Jim Gilpin.

Dr. John Corpolongo and Allen County Hospital Administrator Ted Mohr will both speak at the reception. Refreshments will be served and Dr. Schmaus' granddaughter, Lisa Talkington, will register guests. The public is invited.

II you mist your Register call your papor boy first. II you can't gat him, call Jerry Chambers, 365-5842 botwoon 4 and 7 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) In the span of three recent weeks, Air Force One hauled President Carter 26,500 miles to two continents and across both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Carter and his recent predecessors have flown around the globe so widely and so routinely that its a bit difficult to realize that only 36 years have passed since an incumbent president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, first took to the skies.

When FDR left Miami on Jan. 11, 1943, bound for a World War II conference at Casablanca, the U.S. Pregnancy tests wrong WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration says a Miami firm is recalling nearly 40,000 faulty pregnancy test products distributed abroad because they tended to give false negative readings. The agency said the test was not sensitive enough. The FDA said Thursday the test was distributed by International Diagnostics, a subsidiary of North American Biologicals to Puerto Rico, Canada, France and Switzerland.

It was intended for health professionals only and not sold over the counter to the public, the FDA said. government did not have a single airplane suitable for presidential travel. Roosevelt flew aboard a Gip-per flying boat chartered from Pan American World Airways. In subsequent years, records indicate, only one government-owned presidential plane was grounded because of a design flaw. Harry Trumans DC-6, Independence, went out of service for nearly six months in 1947-48 because the heating system posed a threat of cabin fires.

Tales such as the above, and many more, will be published in book form next Tuesday by Coward, McCann Georhegan Inc. Titled The Flying White House, the book is written by J.F. terHorst and retired Air Force Col. Ralph Albertazzie. TerHorst was former President Gerald R.

Fords first press secretary and Albertazzie Richard M. Nixons Air Force One pilot for 5' years. As Nixon flew home to California in August 1974 after resigning his office, H.R. Haldeman, the indicted former White House chief of staff, placed two telephone calls to Nixon aboard Air Force One seeking a presidential pardon for Watergate crimes. the U.S.

Army during World War II, Schmaus has spent the majority of his adult life as an Iola physician. Through the years he estimates he has delivered over 2,000 babies, a part of his practice he gave up in 1960 following a heart attack. That was one of my favorite aspects of being a physician. I remember the first baby I delivered. It was up north of Iola on a farm and I think I was more scared than the patient.

It was her first baby, too, Schmaus said. Since then, he has cared for the grandchildren and even greatgrandchildren of Iolans he brought into the world. Kids are the best part, you know. Ive never had any trouble with them. You try your best not to scare them and an ordinary sucker can go a long ways, he said.

Schmaus has had three children of his own to care for, a son, James, now of Garden Gty; Donna (Talkington) of Iola, a housewife and quite a woman and a son John, who died in 1974. John was also a physician and Area honoring Dr. Psst! Yes, you over at Iola Cable TV. Were whispering because were certain youd rather we didn't talk outloud. Your clock is off.

Looked at it on your own TV channel last night and it said it was 9:08 p.m. when it was really 10:23. What channel was that on, you ask? Kansas yield is Bv SCOTT KRAFT Associated Press Writer The countrys largest wheat-producing state is drawing exceptionally high yields out of its late harvest thanks to excellent weather in late May and June, Kansas harvest officials say. I think everybody's pretty pleased, said Anita Schartz, coordinator of the state harvest control office in Great Bend. Yields have been running really high.

We haven't had any reports of yields under 30 bushels an acre and that's exceptional. The harvest rain into a slight hitch Wednesday night and Thursday when rain dampened fields throughout central and northern Kansas and combine crews were stalled along a line from southwest Kansas to Salina. There were a few reports of hail damage to wheat in northwest Kansas Rain was reported in counties surrounding Goodland. Hays, Salina, Gaden City and Great Bend Thursday, but farmers said they expected to be back in the fields by the weekend. The National Weather Service forecast called for partly cloudy skies today and a chance of rain over the weekend.

Wheat officials say indications are that the crop will be one of the states larger. Overall yields have been in the 40-to 45-bushel-an-acre range, and several reports of up to 65 bushels have been received. Continued from Page 1 the University of Iowa Medical School, working to put himself through. I worked every day and earned every dollar I spent. I worked in a hospital serving up cereal from 3 to 5 a.m.

every day, for which I got three meals a day and that's all. The rest of the day was spent studying and attending classes, he said. A few months before his graduation from medical school, he married a graduate nurse, Lenora. Schmaus remained at the University of Iowa for his internship and came to Halstead, to serve a five-year residency in internal medicine, at the Hertzler Memorial Hospital. Following his residency, Schmaus came to Iola to practice.

Dr. Hertzler chose the town for him. It was a lucky pick. Iola is inhabited by the best people in the world. Thats probably a little flowery, but Ill say it anyway, he said.

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