The Hays Daily News from Hays, Kansas • Page 7

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17,2006 THE HAYS DAILY NEWS A7 Obituaries Karolyn May Muirhead Karolyn May Muirhead, 82, Oberlin, died Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Services are at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. John Lutheran Church, Oberlin; burial in Oberlin Cemetery Visitation will be from 8 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Monday at Pauls Funeral Home, Oberlin, and from 8 a.m. until time of service Tuesday at the church. Pauls Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Anton 'Tony' Krob Anton "Tony" Krob, 95, Cuba, died Friday, Dec.

15,2006, in Republic County Hospital Long Term Care, Belleville. He was born Oct. 6,1911, in Cuba. He was a retired farmer. Survivors include two sons, John Krob, Cuba, and Jim Krob, Hays; a daughter, Judy Parks, Council Grove; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Marie, in 1991 and a son, Ernest Krob. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Isidore Catholic Church, Cuba; burial in St. Isidore Cemetery, Cuba.

Visitation will be from noon to 9 p.m. today at Tibbetts-Fischer Funeral Home, Belleville. A rosary will be at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to.St.

Isidore Church or Cemetery Fund in care of the funeral home. James Marvin Strong James Marvin Strong, 70, Hoxie, died Thursday, Dec. 14,2006, at his home. He was born Feb. 24,1936, in Baker, to Ellis and Helen (Baisley) Strong.

He married Ruby (Lorna) Procter on Aug. 7,1977, in Pendleton, Ore. He was a horse- shoer, ferrier and pen rider for Hoxie Feedyard. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Survivors include his wife, of the home; a son, Glen Strong, Oberlin; his father, Baker City, a brother, Elmer Hill, North Powder, two sisters, Bonita Herbert, North Powder, and Bertha Hill, Baker City Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home, Hoxie; burial in Hoxie Cemetery with military rites by Fort Riley soldiers. Visitation will be from 1 to 6 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday, both at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to Adventist Disaster Relief Agency in care of the funeral home. Mathilda Bollig Mathilda Bollig, 77, New Almelo, died Thursday, Dec. 14,2006, at Cedar Living Center, Oberlin. She was born Aug.

24,1929, in Victoria to Edward and Effie Weber. She attended schools in Victoria. She married Gilbert Bollig in Ellis. He preceded her in death Oct. 23, 2006.

Survivors include a son, Glenn Bollig, Norton; a sister, Alma Weber, Victoria; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Cherald; and a daughter, Rose. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, New Almelo; burial in St.

Joseph Cemetery, New Almelo. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday at Enfield Funeral Home, Norton. A rosary will be at 7 p.m. Monday at St.

Joseph Auditorium, New Almelo. Memorials are suggested to Mathilda Bollig Memorial Fund in care of the funeral home. Erik Erickson Erik P. Erickson, 95, Colby, died Friday, Dec. 15,2006.

He was born Nov. 8,1911, in Herndon. Services are pending at Pauls Funeral Home, Oberlin. Winter outlook bleak for cattlemen By ROXANA HEGEMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WICHITA Plagued by water shortages and shrinking hay supplies, Kansas cattlemen face a bleak winter with little end in sight for a lingering drought that has dried up many stock ponds and water wells alike. Although the state could get some rain or snow with a storm system next week, the long-range climate outlook for Kansas does not include any relief, said Ken Cook, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Wichita.

Much of Kansas remains abnormally dry, with the worst drought conditions in south-central Kansas, along the Kansas-Oklahoma state line, he said. For livestock producers such as Woodston cattleman Jerry McReynolds, this is the seventh- straight year of drought in his area. Even his home water well is not keeping up with his household water needs as groundwater levels continue to drop. Almost every day for the past seven months, McReynolds has hauled water from the local rural water district to a herd of cattle. Each day he twice fills the gallon tank on the back of his wheat truck and drives about 50 miles with it to the three pastures where his animals are grazing.

A cow can drink between 10 and 12 gallons of water a day, he said. "I am not sure which will happen first: whether some of us die off or the weather cycle changes," McReynolds said as he took a break from hauling rocks on his ranch. He has cut the numbers of animals in his herd, keeping 170 cows to feed and water through the win- ter. Earlier this year he culled 20 cow-calf pairs; a year ago he culled 50 pairs. He will decide in spring whether to cut back further depending on the weather.

But McReynolds was grateful that he has enough feed to make it through this winter, thanks to an emergency drought assistance program that allowed him to cut Conservation Reserve Program grass. "I took advantage of that and put up quite enough CRP bales; I swathed everything that was green," McReynolds said. Kansas hay production this year plummeted to 5.5 million tons, down from 6.68 million tons a year ago. Alfalfa hay production this year fell to 2.7 million tons from 3.4 million tons the season earlier, according to the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service. The state has especially tight supplies of alfalfa and grass hay, although there is plenty of the Sudan, cane and millet hay stocks, said Steve Hessman, hay market reporter for the Agriculture Department's office in Dodge City.

"The whole state as far as supplies available for sale is tight. There is not a good place to look, and what little is left out there is in strong hands. Those guys know what they have and they are not going to sell it cheap," Hessman said. The price of stock cow-quality hay across most of the state is running between $130 to $140 a ton almost double what it was selling for a year ago, he said. "What I would recommend to our local cow people is to get your feed needs covered," Hessman said.

"In the last two weeks, demand has picked up from areas south of us. Those folks know they need some hay and they are coming after it." Brownback touts FDA move OVERLAND PARK (AP) Sen. Sam Brownback said Friday his presidential pursuit has gone well so far, and he praised the Food and Drug Administration's move to give seriously ill patients easier access to experimental drugs. The Kansas Republican spoke to reporters before delivering the keynote address at a Christian radio luncheon. He said he will be closely watching a new FDA proposal in which patients with life- threatening illnesses could gain access to new treatment alternatives.

"We can get to this goal of elim- inating deaths by cancer in 10 years," Brownback said. "We have to be aggressive, and we have to be innovative. And here's one of the proposals that's starting to move forward in the system." The senator said the FDA proposal will remove hurdles that have kept thousands of seriously ill patients from being able to take certain drugs. Last year, Brownback wrote legislation dubbed the Access, Compassion, Care and Ethics for Seriously-Ill Patients Act to address the challenges he felt were affecting those patients. 12 Days of Christmas Sale Dec.

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