University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1985
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Land value plan gets bureau's OK
By United Press International
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The president of the Kansas Farm Bureau yesterday called the Legislature's approval of a classification measure the most significant legislative action in years.
Bureau President Doyle Rahjes predicted the classification measure would receive strong support from most Kansas farmers and ranchers when it is presented to voters on the general election ballot in November 1986.
"Through this amendment, we can avoid a mountainous tax shift to residential and agricultural land." Rahjes said in a statement. "The machinery is in motion to bring sanity to the tax mess in Kansas. Farm
Bureau will be taking every opportunity to support this measure."
The classification plan, given final approval by the Legislature Friday, would allow different types of property to be assessed at different rates.
The classification measure is aimed at maintaining the status quo so that taxes will not shift drastically
Under current law, all property is supposed to be taxed uniformly and equally at 30 percent of market value. However, because property values have not been updated since the early 1960s, assessments have strained far below the 30 percent mark.
Under the classification plan, residential property and mobile homes would be assessed at 12 per cent of the commercial, industrial and utility property and motor vehicles would be assessed at 30 percent.
Wolf Creek plant has emergency situation
By United Press International
BURLINGTON — A sudden drop in pressure in a main steam line at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant precipitated a brief emergency situation at the facility during the weekend, officials said yesterday.
Lyle Koeper, spokesman for Kansas Gas and Electric Co., said the incident occurred at about 4:25 p.m. Sunday while KG&E workers were testing lives in the steam line below the utility building. Utility utility, is responsible for the construction of the $3 billion nuclear power plant.
The incident caused no threat to the public.
The testing caused pressure in the steam line to drop quickly from 700 pounds per square inch to 650 pounds per square inch. Koerper said. The sudden drop forced authorities to declare an "unusual event" — the least serious of four emergency situations at nuclear power plants.
The alert was downgraded to normal a few minutes after the emergency situation was declared. Koerper said.
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Hayden discusses Chinese exchange
By United Press International
In return for buying more U.S. products, the Chinese indicated they wanted educational exchanges between American and Chinese students and teachers, Hayden said.
In April, a delegation from Henan — Kansas' sister state on mainland China — spent six days in Kansas and farming farms, factories
After visits in San Francisco and Hong Kong, the Kansas delegation plans to visit Hien province for 10 days and be visited by visits to Peking and Japan.
TOPEKA - A goodwill trip by Kansas lawmakers and education officials to China is likely to produce more educational agreements than trade exchange agreements, House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said yesterday.
Hayden said the tour would concentrate on educational exchanges at the request of the Chinese. Hayden and the delegation plan to leave for the Henan province in China today.
Although Hayden said it was too early to make a prediction, he said it might be possible to increase state spending by another $110 to $120 million in fiscal 1987 without a tax increase.
The Legislature cut $60 million from Gov. John Carlin's request for new spending and rejected a call for a $80 million tax increase.
He noted that lawmakers this year had sliced more money from the governor's proposed budget to allow 10 previous sessions combined.
Hayden admitted that the Republican leadership had begun the 1985 session with the game plan of avoiding a general tax increase not only this year but next year as well.
THE SPEAKER SAID officials of some Board of Regents schools, community colleges and
vocational-technical schools would make the trip. The delegation will include Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Jola; Senate Minority Leader Mike Johnston, D-Parsons; and House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg.
Turning to the 1985 legislative session, which concluded Saturday, Hayden praised lawmakers for pumping about $60 million in new spending into education while avoiding a general tax hike.
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