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University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1985
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House OKs drunken driving bill
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A bill to require an automatic 30-day suspension of driving privileges for a first-time conviction of drunken driver won initial approval yesterday in the House.
The measure, a combination of several bills approved by the Senate, would also mandate a 120-day license suspension for a second conviction and a six-month license suspension for drivers who were in violation of law or who wanted to take a blood-alcohol test. The suspensions would be followed by license restrictions that would last one year.
"It's time to crack down on repeat offenders, and this bill certainly does that," said Rep.
Robert Vancrum, O-Roverland Park. "I'm aware that the feeling of this body extends all the way from thinking we are being too hard on the first-time offenders to thinking that we need measures beyond this bill."
Vancrum said that although many might consider Kansas laws tough on drunken drivers, the opposite was true. He noted that a tightening of drunken driving laws by the 1982 Legislature had produced little or no effect on the rate of Kansas highway fatalities and driving arrests that were alcohol-related.
Another major change in the measure would make having a blood-alcohol level of more than 10 percent sufficient evidence to support a drunken driving conviction. Kansas is one of only eight
states that requires prosecutors to prove that the blood-alcohol level detected in the accused driver impaired the driver's ability to safely operate a vehicle.
That provision of the bill survived the repeated efforts of Rep. Edwin Bideau, R-Chanute, to delete it. Bideau, a former county prosecutor, said the "per se" provision would place the alcohol measurement tests on trial instead of the defendant.
Bideau was successful in removing a portion of the bill that would have permitted the arrest and conviction of a drunken person who was in custody of an automobile, as opposed to operating the vehicle.
The measure is set for a final vote by the House today.
Senate limits state aid to schools
10PEKA, Kan. — Although it has yet to debate the school finance formula, the Kansas Senate yesterday passed, 35-3, an appropriations bill limiting increased state aid to local school districts to $30 million, which is the amount endorsed by the House in its action on the school finance formula.
By United Press International
The Senate's action adds insult to the House's injury of Gov. John
Carlin's public education budget.
Carlin had called for $67.1 million in increased state aid to local school districts.
Senate Minority Leader Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, failed, 13-26, to increase the amount of funding by $20 million. Johnston argued that the money was needed to reduce potential increases in local property taxes under the school aid plan.
As passed by the House, the school finance bill would allow most local school districts to increase their
Carlin's proposal, intended to boost teacher salaries 10 percent, would allow property taxes to increase $45 million.
Veda Owens/KANSAN
Johnston argued that pumping in an additional $20 million, while using the House budget increase limits, would reduce the property increase to $19 million.
Museum's furry tales please kids
Bitsy Patton, left, program developer for the Museum of Natural History, reads a story to a group of children. Ruth Genrich, right, director of public education for the Museum, illustrates the story with a puppet.
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
staff Reporter
"Erick attended the last animal story hour at the museum and reminded me about the one today." Axcell said. "He learns something about nature from those stories."
Sitting Indian-style on colored carpet squares, eight children listened yesterday, to Bitsey Patton, program developer for the Museum of Natural History, tell of a talking oyster, a noisy rabbit and a wishful donkey.
With the help of exhibits, animals and a puppet, Patton narrates animal stories from books. Each story has a moral. And each story helps children get excited about science, Patton said.
It it was an introduction to science that 4-year-old Erick Axell said he wouldn't forget. He made sure that his mother, Nan, didn't forget either.
The animal story hour is one of several children's workshops offered by the museum as a community service, Patton said.
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"KU's museum has one of the best public education departments in the country," Haggerty said. "I'm here to observe KU's program and take ideas back to the University of Arkansas.
The story hour and other work-
shops are seen as an investment in
the community.
"The story hour and the other weekend workshops that are offered here are something similar to what we'd like to develop in Fayetteville."
"ON A MORE dramatic level, these children could be the scientists of the future," said Patton. "We want them to get excited about science. We want them to love science. Science is fun."
the workshops. The purpose of a university is to educate, and the workshops are an extension of that purpose to the community.
The $5 fee for most of the workshops was reasonable, she said, because "we've had some funding problems."
Lib Hagerty, coordinator of education for the University of Arkansas, attended the story hour. She said the Museum of Natural History's public education department would serve as a role
"I have to pay for salaries and brochures, buy materials and gas for buses," she said.
"We're as cheap as a babysitter and a lot better. Nothing's slipshod around here. If the kids don't have a good time, they'll sell their parents they don't want to come back."
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