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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 10, 1968
Kansas Legislature opens; lawmakers hear 63 bills
TOPEKA, Kan. —(UPI) -The 1968 Kansas Legislature, the first election year general session in nearly a century, convened today faced with 60 work days.
The lawmakers' session began at noon with the gavels sounding in both chambers.
Action was expected to start fast as this is the first 60-day session authorized under a 1966 constitutional amendment. The relatively short time, however, can be extended by a two-thirds vote of both houses.
This will also be the first election year session of the legislature in nearly a century. Before, all the 90-day general sessions were held on odd years, and only the short budget sessions on even years.
The election year probably will make the session one of the most turbulent in many years.
Legislators are expected to be challenged by such emotional Kansas issues as liquor-by-thedrink, Sunday closing, fair housing and possibly para mutuel betting.
Highways will be the major issue during the session. Gov. Robert B. Docking has proposed a five-year, $335 million, bond-financed highway program. The Republicans also plan to propose a program early in the session.
The senate also will be faced with the job of reapportionment. The high chamber is under a federal court mandate to reapportion the 40-member senate by April 1. A tenative redistricting plan is expected to be ready for introduction this week.
The legislature will also be confronted with the complicated job of implementing a 1966 constitutional amendment which authorized an elected state board of education. The board would appoint an education commissioner to take over many of the duties of the state superintendent of public instruction.
The Kansas State Teachers
Association KSTA will ask for a $78 million increase in state aid to school districts and changes in the School Foundation Act.
The issue of corporation farming also will appear again in 1968, as it did in 1967. During last year's session, the senate passed a bill which would allow unrestricted corporation farming. It was held over in the house and will be acted upon this session.
Constitutional Revision
Constitutional revision is also among the concerns of both parties. But they have proposed different methods to achieve it. Docking wants the session to call a constitutional convention, while
GOP leaders want a citizen's committee to be appointed to study possible revision and make a report to the 1969 session.
The Docking administration has a number of proposals, including the highway program, which it will try to push through the GOP majority in both houses. Although the Docking and GOP programs delve into many of the same area, they will no doubt clash, probably on financing.
Docking is flatly opposed to any increase in any tax, and this may be where he and the Republicans will tangle, especially on highways. Many Republicans feel an increase in the present five-cent gasoline tax is necessary to back a highway program.
Author unable to come next month
Joseph Heller, author of "Catch-22," will be unable to accept his appointment to lecture part-time this month at KU as part of the English department's writers-in-residence program.
Heller, whose "Catch-22" is one of the most highly praised novels of the decade, plans to be at KU this spring.
KU students will be able to find out how much they know about cigarettes and why people including themselves—smoke, when CBS News presents the "National Smoking Test" at 9 p.m. Jan. 16.
TV smoking test to be Jan.16
The one-hour television broadcast will test the smoking and nonsmoking public on its knowledge and attitudes concerning cigarette, pipe and cigar smoking.
"I'm not sure what this show will present, but I think it ought to be interesting to watch," said Dr. Raymond Schwegler, KU health service director.
The test will be in three parts:
How You Feel About Smoking;
What You Know About Smoking;
and Smoker's Profile: Why You
Smoke, a study of the motivations
of smoking.
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