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March 13, 2015

After coming off a tough sweep at Hutch, Pratt Community College baseball turned to red shirt freshman Kane McCarthy to turn things around on Tuesday versus Garden City.

McCarthy would continue to play his hot hand going 5.0 innings pitched striking out two, walking one, and allowing only two runs. His masterful pitching gave the Beavers exactly what they needed to be successful. McCarthy would allow the Beaver offense to get things going.

Freshman right fielder Julio Ibarra of Venezuela rocketed a double off the left-centerfield fence. He would go two for two on the game with a double and an RBI.

Ibarra wouldn’t be the only Beaver to find his stroke. Sophomore short stop Nick Griffin “Griffy” went two for three with two runs. Co-captain and local athletic star, center fielder Skylar Dean “Squag” would go one for three with two runs and two diving catches to save multiple runs. However the offense was powered by freshman third baseman Glenn DesBouillons “Desi” going one for one with three RBIs; his first of his collegiate career.

Following McCarthy’s stellar performance on the mound, freshman closer Craig Smith came in for the two inning save allowing zero walks, zero hits and striking out three. Beavers win 6-2.

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In game two, Beavers turned to freshman Jon Mackey to keep the momentum. Mackey would go 1 1/3 innings allowing two runs on two hits. Following Mackey would be freshman left hander Dwight Rahming of Bahamas who would go 1 2/3 innings walking two and allowing four hits
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Once again, it was the Beaver offense that came alive. Ibarra again opened things with a solo home run to deep left center field. He would go three for four with a home run, three runs and three RBIs. Co-captain second baseman Jacob Hamerle went two for four with one run, one RBI, and two walks. But just like game one, the offense was fueled by Desi. Desi would go two for five with one run and three RBIs.

Hayden Brauser would come in for two innings of solid relief for the win. The Beavers would turn to Smith to shut the door on the game, going one inning with zero hits and zero walks. Beavers win 17-13.

Offensive MVP: Desi 3/6 2 runs 6 RBI
Pitching MVP: McCarthy 5.0 IP 5 Hits 2 Runs 1 Walk 2 Strikeouts

Beavers will host Brown Mackie on Saturday, March 14, at 1 p.m.

PCC Performing Arts department presents Fiddler on the Roof

Editor

March 13, 2015

credit – Pratt Community College

The Pratt Community College Performing Arts Department will be performing Fiddler on the Roof for their spring show.

The play is based on Tevye (Dan Gillig), a Jewish milkman, who tells of the customs in the little Russian town of Anatevka. It is 1905, and life here is as precarious as a fiddler on the roof, yet, through their traditions, the villagers endure.

“This show has a very strong cast,” said Misty Beck, director. “We decided to go with a classic this year because we did something newer last year.”

Along with a strong cast, the show also has a very large chorus and has the largest band the college has used in a show with a keyboard, piano, cello, clarinet, drums, a trumpet and violin.

Three people in this show are playing roles they played in the past, which Beck said is making the show even stronger.

Along with Gillig, the cast include Tevye’s five daughters played by Shannon Neifert, Callie Hobkirk, Talia Kruger, McKenna Moreland and Olivia Jacobs; Yente by Kelley Bishop; Lazar Wolf by Gale Rose; Motel by Jacob Bowles and Perchik by Zach Stone.

Beck said this show has an extensive stage set, which Jeremy and Leah Patterson are in charge of. Brandon Wade is the chorus director and Melissa Jacobs is in charge of the choreographing.

Beck said a fun fact about this show is that seven families have all or almost all of them involved in some way.

The show is March 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and March 29 at 2:30 p.m. All shows cost $5 at the door and will be in Carpenter Auditorium.

On March 28 there will be a dinner theatre. Tickets must be purchased in advance for the dinner and cost $10.

To reserve your seat for the dinner theatre or for additional information, call Amanda at 620-450-2212.

November 22, 1963

Sandy Pugh

March 13, 2015

(Another assignment for my writing class students.)

Is that date familiar to you? To anyone living in 1963 it sure is. It was the Friday before Thanksgiving. I was 15 years old and looking forward to turning 16 in just two months and getting my real drivers license.

It was the year of the box pleat skirt and sweater sets. The sweater and the skirt were always the same color but one of them might be a plaid. We always wore leotards that matched the set and if you wore head bands they had to match also.

My sweater set was teal blue and the sweater and skirt were both a solid color. I always wore a white shirt under the sweater with a tiny collar. The head band matched the sweater set. The leotards or tights I had were a teal and black argyle plaid. I was wearing this outfit on November 22, 1963.

But to all of us that were around during that year it is a day that we will never forget. Just like another generation that remembers Pearl Harbor. And today’s generation will always remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the Twin Towers.

We all remember exactly what we were doing at 1:00 p.m. November 22, 1963. It was the worst day for the country in many years and we were caught right in the middle of it. This was the day and time that President Kennedy was assassinated.

I was a sophomore in high school that year. We were just back from lunch and I was in speech class. The class had just started and no one was in front of the class giving a speech yet. It was only a few minutes after 1:00 when the class was interrupted.

The principal’s voice came over the intercom and told us that President Kennedy had been shot about 12:30 in the motorcade in downtown Dallas. He had been taken to the nearest hospital but it did not look good.

We were all in such shock that our teacher talked to us for a little while about what had just happened and class was forgotten for the time being. A few minutes later Mr.Gallion, our principal, came back on the intercom to inform us that President Kennedy had died.

The speech class was held in a little class room tucked back in the corner at the top of the south steps of the school. Next door to this class room was the typing and accounting classroom and we could usually hear the sound of the old manual typewriters; but not this afternoon.

I was sitting in the second row from the door and the third seat from the front in class that day. It was so dead quiet in the school after the announcement that you could have heard a pin drop at the other end of the building.

Then a book slipped off the desk behind me and hit the floor and about scared us all to death. It was so loud in that silence that it sounded like an explosion. I am sure it could be heard all over the school as it echoed in the hall.

I have asked the class ahead of me and my class mates about the exact time we heard about his death and every one of them can remember what class they were in and exactly where they were sitting in the class room. I am sure that most people can remember this very clearly.

I can’t remember much else from that horrible day, the rest of the classes were a blur and I don’t imagine any of the kids in school remember much that went on after the announcement from the principal. The teachers tried their best to console and help us understand the situation but I am sure there was not any teaching for the rest of the afternoon.

I know we spent the weekend glued to our black and white televisions watching the events in Washington when they moved his casket to the capital rotunda where it rested until the funeral the next day and his burial in Arlington National Cemetery.

On Sunday the 24th the flag draped casket of the President was moved from the White House to the Capital Rotunda. It was carried on a caisson drawn by 6 gray horses. It was followed by a lone black rider less horse. The Presidents body would lay in state for 21 hours until the funeral on Monday.

They were moving Lee Harvey Oswald from the police station to the county jail in Dallas at the same time the President was being moved. It was amazing that people were allowed into the police station during the move. It gave Jack Ruby the opportunity to be there with a gun and to get close enough to Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot him. Oswald died a short time later.

Most people were not bothered by the assassination of the man that shot President Kennedy. But there were a lot of questions that could have been answered if he had lived to go to trial. Things that will never be known because he was silenced before the questions were asked.

Was there a conspiracy and by whom? Did Oswald act alone or did he have help from someone on the grassy knoll? We will never know the answers to those questions.

I bet if you were alive and old enough to remember you can answer this question quickly. Where were you when you learned that President Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963? To contact sandy: [email protected]

Peanut Prices

Editor

March 13, 2015

ISSN: 1949-1891

Released March 13, 2015, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service 
(NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of 
Agriculture (USDA).

Peanut Price Highlights

Peanut prices received by farmers for all farmer stock peanuts averaged 
21.9 cents per pound for the week ending March 7, up 0.2 cent from the 
previous week. Marketings of all farmer stock peanuts for the week ending 
March 7 totaled 89.2 million pounds, down 14.6 million pounds from the 
previous week.

Runner-type peanut prices averaged 21.5 cents per pound for the week ending 
March 7, down 0.2 cent from the previous week. Marketings of runner-type 
peanuts were 82.5 million pounds, down 21.2 million pounds from the previous 
week.

Peanut Prices and Marketings by Type - United States: February 7, 2015-March 7, 2015
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              :                               Week ending                                
 Item and type:--------------------------------------------------------------------------
              : February 7,  : February 14, : February 21, : February 28, :   March 7,   
              :     2015     :     2015     :     2015     :     2015     :     2015     
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              :                            dollars per pound                             
              :                                                                          
Average price :                                                                          
Runner .......:     0.213          0.210          0.206          0.217          0.215    
Spanish ......:     0.459          0.304          0.300            (X)            (X)    
Valencia .....:       (X)            (X)            (X)            (X)            (X)    
Virginia .....:     0.262          0.294          0.262            (X)          0.269    
              :                                                                          
All ..........:     0.237          0.224          0.214          0.217          0.219    
              :                                                                          
              :                               1,000 pounds                               
              :                                                                          
Marketings 1/ :                                                                          
Runner .......:   101,555         70,801         75,026        103,776         82,535    
Spanish ......:    10,513          3,155          4,321              -              -    
Valencia .....:         -              -              -              -              -    
Virginia .....:     1,211         10,027          4,846              -          6,632    
              :                                                                          
All ..........:   113,279         83,983         84,193        103,776         89,167    
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-   Represents zero.                                                                     
(X) Not applicable.                                                                      
1/  Quantity purchased from farmers.                                                     

Statistical Methodology

Survey procedures: Price and marketing information included in this report is 
provided the beginning of each week by first buyers of farmer stock peanuts. 
Each week, respondents are asked to report total pounds purchased 
(marketings) from farmers and total dollars paid, by type (Runners, Spanish, 
Valencias, and Virginias), for the previous week. The reported data are to 
include all qualities and grades and exclude peanuts used for seed. Data are 
collected by telephone, fax, and internet each week for the previous week. 
The peanut price survey is an enumeration of all known first buyers of farmer 
stock peanuts from growers. Every effort is made to obtain a report from all 
buyers.

Estimating procedures: Since a complete report is not received from all 
buyers each week, the reported quantities purchased and total dollars paid 
for each type are expanded to account for non-response. These expanded data 
are then used to calculate the weighted average price for each type. 
Estimates of price and marketings are prepared by the Agricultural Statistics 
Board and reviewed for reasonableness with recent historic estimates and 
between the different peanut types.

Revision policy: Price and marketing estimates for the prior three weeks are 
subject to revision based on late reports. At the end of the marketing year, 
all buyers will have an opportunity to update or provide any late data for 
any week during the marketing year. After this data is incorporated with 
previously reported data, revised weekly estimates will be published for the 
entire marketing year.

Reliability: The peanut price survey is subject to non-sampling errors such 
as omission, duplication, imputation for missing data, and mistakes in 
reporting, recording, and processing the data. These errors cannot be 
measured directly, but are minimized through rigid quality controls in the 
data collection process and a careful review of all reported data for 
consistency and reasonableness.

Information Contacts

Listed below are the commodity statisticians in the Crops Branch of the 
National Agricultural Statistics Service to contact for additional 
information. E-mail inquiries may be sent to [email protected]

Lance Honig, Chief, Crops Branch........................... (202) 720-2127

Anthony Prillaman, Head, Field Crops Section............... (202) 720-2127
     Brent Chittenden - Oats, Rye, Wheat................... (202) 720-8068
     Angie Considine - Cotton, Cotton Ginnings, Sorghum.... (202) 720-5944
     Tony Dahlman - Crop Weather, Barley................... (202) 720-7621
     Chris Hawthorn - Corn, Flaxseed, Proso Millet......... (202) 720-9526
     James Johanson - County Estimates, Hay................ (202) 690-8533
     Bianca Pruneda - Peanuts, Rice........................ (202) 720-7688
     Travis Thorson - Soybeans, Sunflower, Other Oilseeds.. (202) 720-7369

Access to NASS Reports

For your convenience, you may access NASS reports and products the following 
ways:

 	All reports are available electronically, at no cost, on the NASS web 
site: http://www.nass.usda.gov

 	Both national and state specific reports are available via a free e-
mail subscription. To set-up this free subscription, visit 
http://www.nass.usda.gov and in the "Follow NASS" box under "Receive 
reports by Email," click on "National" or "State" to select the reports 
you would like to receive. 

For more information on NASS surveys and reports, call the NASS Agricultural 
Statistics Hotline at (800) 727-9540, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, or e-mail: 
[email protected]. 
  
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CIVILIZATION HAS BEEN THRUST UPON ME…

AND IT HAS NOT ADDED ONE WHIT

TO MY LOVE FOR TRUTH,

HONESTY, AND GENEROSITY.”

Standing Bear – Lakota

Now I am going where angels fear to tread. It is dangerous enough to discuss politics in todays politically correct society. But I am about to talk about some thoughts on religion.

I took a 4 year course that was actually college level once studying the bible. The teacher was brilliant and more qualified than any professor I had ever known. He had real world practice of living his faith in a world where it is very difficult. His insights were so fascinating to me because it incorporated as much history as scripture and he had walked the places where it took place.

It bothers me a lot when church leaders keep buying the line that Islam is a peaceful religion and try’s to compromise with it. Having read the Koran it is apparent that it has nothing to do with peace. Actions speak louder than words and all you have to do is see the news to understand that it is not.

Were the Islamists truly peaceful there would be a moderate majority decrying and condemning the radicals. There would be a reformation movement to grow out of the 8th Century into the modern world. Do not forget that many of the radical leaders and many followers were educated in university settings and many are professionals in their former lives.

I do not understand the women’s rights movement not coming to the aid of their sex in the exploitation and disgraceful treatment at the hands of these society’s. The rampant pedophilia should give away what the religion truly is and who they worship. It is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When the population accepts that the truth is a lie and the lie is right, it can only be one entity and that is Lucifer himself.

I fully believe that Mohamed was the first Anti Christ. And I have clerics that agree with me. What bothers me is that while Christians are being crucified, beheaded, and slaughtered many denominations are still set to dispute doctrine from their viewpoint.

It disturbed me when the Pope walked into a mosque and prayed. The firestorm that people who just don’t accept the papal authority went wild with judgment and hate.

The more I think about it it makes more sense if you ask yourself how Jesus handled things in his time. He infuriated the Sanhedrin, Pharisee’s, Sadducees, and all authority in the Jewish hierarchy. They were outraged that he associated with tax collectors and other sinners. He would thwart their thoughts by giving answers in parables. He was a man of peace and yet recognized authority when it was just.
He gives the example of the Good Sheppard leaving the 99 to find the one lost lamb. And there is more rejoicing in Heaven over one lost soul reclaimed than the righteous.
God gave man the ability to question and think. Also freedom of choice. He asks for faith in him but does not require it. He gave Ten Commandments for mankind to live by, and man complicates it with scores of rules imposed on others.
The end of days is foretold in the apocryphal books and yet the signs of the end times have always been with us and still are today. The Islamist militants believe that they are provoking the Armageddon and will continue to try and create it. This makes the world nervous.
And as the frustration of the governments seeming lack of action to thwart evil in the world it has been forgotten that leadership is best accomplished by example. The Evil Empire was brought down by it’s own weight, and the might of the US military, coupled with a leader who projected the strength that made them believe he would use it.
I read an address by Franklin Graham that made the point as to what the difference is between God and the deity that Islam cites. ‘Paraphrased’, “God does not need defending. He does not require man to murder, rape, enslave, and destroy to do his work”. A faith that has to do this is only left with one entity that they defend and that is the Evil One. The history of Islam has been continual war since the 8th Century. The culture that once excelled in science, art, poetry, and maintained the largest libraries in the world has been hijacked on those bent on the destruction of all else.
Do not Judge or be Judged is the line from scripture. Christians of all denominations need to come back together and stop the infighting and hatred among themselves. I do not feel as threatened about the Pope making the effort to reach out as I once was. I am more threatened by those who take their eyes from the journey to conflict with each other.

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