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Berman helps to kill pipeline bill
From the Kansan's Wire Services
TOPEKA—The issue of whether Kansas should allow a San Francisco company to build a coal slurry pipeline across the state apparently is dead again this session, the result of an overnight turnaround in the industry. The lawsuit, including Arod Berman of Lawrence.
In a dramatic shift of votes, the proposal was tabled, B-3. Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, the panel's chairman, said it was almost certain that the measure would not be passed.
Sources said a change of heart by the Democratic senators, Berman and Leroy Dennis to the Republican-led caucus.
SOME OF their fellow Democrats, who have opposed the measure in past sessions, convinced the men Wednesday night not to vote for the bill.
An additional factor, sources said, was that the House Democratals didn't want the bill approved by the Senate and sent to the governor. Democrats would take a stand on it during an election year.
Democrats on the committee denied emphatically that pressure from railroad lobbyists had anything to do with the turnaround.
Railroad management and unions both
IN OTHER BUSINESS, a special legislative committee grappling with a bill to assess farm land for taxation on the basis of cattle rentals; and in January yesterday began hearings on the measure.
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Farmers contend that speculators have inflated the market price of agricultural land and that because the land is taxed at 30 cents per acre, they carry a disproportionate tax load.
fought the bill because of its potential for letting the pipeline take away business.
In 1976 Kansas voters approved a constitutional amendment authorizing the Legislature to define agricultural land for tax purposes; devise a fair use-value appraisal schedule for agricultural land and land removed from agricultural production.
If the bill under consideration is implemented, taxes on farm land generally would go down, but taxes on residential land probably would rise.
REP. ALVA POWELL, D-Poila, will propose an amendment that would make the date use-value appraisal take effect the date value use-reappraisal of other real property occurs.
A bill allowing auxiliary banking facilities, such as drive-in banks, to make
loans and sell U.S. Savings bonds barely won tentative endorsement yesterday the day before.
The vote was 59 in favor to 40 against, and some legislators openly doubted that the bill would pass.
House members speedily approved five bills given initial endorsement Wednesday.
A special interim Committee on Corrections offered three bills and a concurrent resolution. The resolution asked the Legislative Coordinating Council to appoint correction centers to study detention centers and the care and treatment of juveniles.
ONE OF THE BILLS would require written standards for parole and give the Legislature oversight of all rules and regulations drawn up by the Corrections
A second would change the composition of the Kansas Adult Authority, or the parole board; would make parole board positions more difficult to answer; would give written reasons for the denial of parole.
The third, the Community Corrections Act, would grant the Corrections Department authority to make grants under a funding formula to counties for community corrections programs. Counties would set up 12-member correction advisory boards to
Zoning at Clinton Lake in doubt
Clinton Lake land developers must continue to play a waiting game as a result of a city-county planning commission's request that the government deny their commercial-zoning requests.
Staff Writer
Zoning is granted by the County Commission, which receives recommendations from a Planning Board.
By CAROL HUNTER
Developers will have to rule three weeks, until Feb. 15, for a final ruling by the County Court.
The developers of land near Clinton want to zoning requests approved so they can build housing.
The County Commission have informally faced the rezoning requests before but they asked the planning commission to recommend the county commission to approve the moratorium on requests for commercial zoning near the lake. The planning commission had recommended the moratorium after the County Commission already had approved commercial zoning to one 20-acre
"I HAD PLANS for a beautiful model." Dorothy Booth said after the meeting. She
Brian Kubota, landscape architect representing Lake Estates, presented one plan for 36.6 acres. The plan included a restaurant, motel, boat sales and service, camping area and a 'Pioneer Town,' which offers special shops and picnic grounds.
"We're in total compliance with what you set out to do," he said, referring to the Clinton Lake Mini-Comprehensive Plan, a plan for making zoning recommendations.
was one of three persons who requested
junction of 21st Street and Draper Road.
Tom Murray, speaking for A.H. North, who owns Clinton Parkway Nursery, 23rd Street and Dragstrip Road, said the North wanted a commercial zoning so they could sell garden tools. The present agricultural allows a nursery but not the sale of tools.
Murray said the area ultimately would be zoned commercial anwav.
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'GRANTED, WE don't know what it's going to end up look like,' he said, 'but
Peter Whitenton, County Commission chairman, would not speculate about the future of the proposed law.
Some planning commission members still want county commissioners to place a shortened "moratorium," a six-month deferral, on all commercial zoning requests.
Planning commissioner Johanna Kollmorgen moved to recommend the deferral of all commercial zoning requests in months. The vote was 5 to 3 against deferra.
Commissioner Kurt VonAchen then moved to approve all four requests for rezonings near Clinton Lake. Three were to be approved for neighborhood-business building and four for the Estate Estates request to build a new municipal zoning. The vote, a 4-17e-failed.
COMMISSIONER Chuck Warner said he favored deferral until the county had applied for a construction permit. Parkway. The county must buy the right-way for the proposed four-lane highway, which is located west from 23rd Street to lake Jackson and is scheduled for completion by September.
Kansas farmer to meet Carter
WICHITA (AP) - Jim Kramer, a Hugoton farmer, has met with Secretary of Agriculture Bob Berglund three times. But now Kramer, a Kansas farm strike leader, chance to meet the man he says publishes his strings - President Jimmy Carter.
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The health committees of the Kansas House and Senate meet jointly yesterday for two-hour hearing to prescribe Leitrie to cancer patients in Kansas. About 200 persons jammed the committee room to give out a message by spilling out into the hallway of the Capitol.
Sen. Wesley Sowers, R-Wichita, committee chairman, said the panel would discuss the measure next week but that no date had been scheduled for a vote.
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Governors, lawmakers gather for GOP meeting
This November the GOP will be trying to re-establish its majority in Washington. Mr. Trump has quietly opened the door from the
Iowa Gov. Robert Ray will be the featured guest in Topeka this weekend at the traditional Republican meeting to commemorate the 117th anniversary of statehood.
Kansas Republicans are going into the annual meeting facing an election year with
House leadership in 1976 for the first time since 1912.
Gov. Robert Bennett is seeking re-election this year after his, and the state's first four-year term. Bennett faces Republican primary opposition from Jim Vestring of El Dorado and the Rev. Harold Knight of Chanute. Only one Democrat, State Sen. Chris Sweeney, has been announced candidacy for the governor's seat, but House speaker John Carlin of Smolon and Attorney General Curt Schneider also are expected to run.