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Republican Morrison to play host to conferences without governor
OLATHE — Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison has scheduled a series of news conferences today to announce a statewide political campaign "not involving the governor's office," a spokesperson said Monday.
Morrison, a Republican, will start his news conferences at the Johnson County Courthouse, where he has prosecuted and won such infamous cases as the Richard Grissom and John Robinson murder trials. His wife and spokeswoman, Joyce Morrison, would not say if he planned to challenge Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in the Republican primary next August. Morrison was re-elected to office in 2004, meaning he wouldn't face re-election for the district attorney's office until 2008.
Other Republicans, though, speculated that Morrison would take on Kline.
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"Phill Kline is always vulnerable because he is so controversial," state Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood, told The Kansas City Star in a story on the newspaper's Web site Monday. "It will be a very expensive, controversial race."
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Volunteer Don DeWoody makes a cut in a doorway for a house being built in eight days for Habitat for Humanity in Wichita on Monday. Monday was the first day of the volunteers' building blitz.
Udder adventure in dairy land
Topeka farmer wants to bottle, market milk
AGRICULTURE
BY MICHAEL HOOPER
THE TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL
TOPEKA — Tim and Laurel Iwig are on a quest to join an emerging trend of dairy farmers who bottle and market their own milk.
At the Iwig farm, the venture will be a repeat of past operations in the 1930s, when the family bottled and delivered milk in the Topeka area.
The Iwigs hope to have their milk operation going again by May.
"We're sitting right on top of Topeka if people will buy it," Iwig said.
Robert Shatto, of Shatto Milk Co. in Osborn, Mo., is a forerunner in this trend in St. Joseph, Mo., and the Kansas City area.
Iwig said his dairy farm hadn't posted a profit in years. He said
he was faced with either getting out of the business or changing course.
By selling and marketing his own milk, he said, he could command a higher price for his product.
Iwig said he planned to use the recyclable milk bottles as an environmentally safe advantage over plastic. Plastic adds an undesirable taste to milk, Iwig said.
"Milk in glass tastes better," he said.
The Iiwg family farm, founded in 1910, has 70 milking cows and is raising 65 replacements.
Iwig's father, Warren Iwig,
84, was born on the Iwig family
farm in southeast Topeka.
He said he remembered when the farm used to provide milk to local hospitals many years ago.
on the farm but would be inade- equate today.
The building where bottling was done in the 1930s is still
Iwig said he had struggled every step of the way to get his own bottling and marketing operation going — running into roadblocks from several agencies.
To satisfy a fire marshal request, he said, he had to enlarge an addition to an existing barn requiring thousands of more dollars in construction expenses.
Iwig said the 40-by-60-foot building being added to the farm would include a processing plant and retail outlet.
Iwig hired consultant Larry Swain, who helped him put together a business plan. The Iwigs have received assurances from stores in Topeka who want to carry their milk products.
Laurel lwig said the farm was a great place for people to come
At the Iwig farm, the venture will be a repeat of past operations in the 1930s, when the family bottled and delivered milk in the Topeka area.
and see a real milking operation and view the animals.
The Iwigs have Holstein and Jersey cows. The Holstein is the better producer, but the Jersey has richer milk, said milk connoisseur Warren Iwig, who still works a little every day on the farm.
Commercial milk sold today doesn't taste anything like the milk he enjoyed growing up on the farm, Warren Iwig said
To bring back the best flavor, the Iwigs will produce both pasteurized and homogenized milk.
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