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University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1985 Page 9
CAMPUS AND AREA
Kemp backs gasohol tax proposal
By United Press International
*TOPEKA* — Kansas Transportation Secretary John Kemp told a house panel yesterday that hebacks Gov. John Carlin's proposal to reduce by 1 tent per gallon the state subsidy for gasolol.
Gasolol is a blend of 10 percent ethyl alcohol and 90 percent gasoline. State and federal authorities have encouraged sales of gasolol by reducing the tax per gallon on the fuel.
Kemp, who is recovering from a heart attack suffered in December, reassured the House Transportation Committee that he is on the road back to good health and looks forward to resumption of his full-time duties as transportation chief.
"I always look forward to visiting with you ask!" under the circumference perhaps more so this year because he be any place right if, he said.
Kemp noted the federal tax on gasohol dropped Jan. 1 from 4 cents to 3 cents a gallon. The combined
federal and state tax for a gallon of regular gasoline is 11 cents. The combined tax for gasolah is 7 cents a gallon.
Indians to get $5.5 million from 1842 government pact
The department of transportation estimates that gasohol sales will represent 26.4 percent of all motor fuel sold in Kansas during 1985. The department also receipts for fiscal 1985 will fall $7.2 million behind original projections.
By United Press International
The Transportation Committee staff estimates that an additional 1 cent increase in the state tax would reduce gasohol sales by 25 percent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About $1,600 will be sent this summer to any person able to prove any fraction of Wyndotte Indian blood, under a petition of Indian Affairs plan to settle a costly signed more than 140 years ago.
The payments, which will come from a national program set up in the 1940s to settle claims by various Indian tribes against the government, are being made to settle a claim of the Wandoffte's Ohio homeland.
Tribes in Oklahoma have received more than $150 million in similar settlement funds.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE DUINGEONS AND Dragons Club will conduct its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., will feature David Murrell, executive director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, who will speak on "Government Housing in Lawrence" at 11:45 a.m.
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