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Friday, April 9, 1993
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TOPEKA—Gov. Jean Finney signed in law yesterday 14 months passed by the 1983 Legislature, including one allowing Fourth Financial Corp. of Wichita to expand its holdings.
Finney signs 14 bills into law
The Associated Press
Bills address bank holdings rattlesnakes and reservoirs
There are about $35 million in bank and savings and loan assets in the state, and Fourth Financial had acquired a $3.9 billion share. Under the 12 percent cap, Fourth Financial was within $265 million of reaching the limit of $4.2 billion. With a 15 percent cap, it can expand to $5.25 billion.
Under the law allowing bank holding companies to operate in Kansas, no one corporation could control more than 12 percent of the total assets of banks and savings and loans in the state. The bill signed by Finney increases that limit to 15 percent.
Also signed by the governor was a bill permitting the harvesting of prairie rattlesnakes for commercial purposes.
That bill will allow those who participate in the Wallace County Rattlesnake Roundup at Sharon Springs to sell the whole snakes or the rattles, skins and meat of the snakes that are taken. The second annual snake hunt is scheduled for May 1-2.
Present law prohibits selling the snakes. The new
law will permit hunters to have 30 snakes in their possession and to offer live snakes or their parts for sale.
Other bills signed by Finney will:
Require the Kansas Water Office to acquire more water supply storage capacity at Tuttle Creek, Melvany and Pomona federal reservoirs.
- Delay implementation of Kansas "motor voter" law until July 1, 1994, to allow the Department of Revenue to complete development of an automated drivers' license system to manage voter registration of people when they apply for new or renewal licenses.
County Clerk votes down field house polls
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
- Require those who raise domesticated deer to obtain state licenses.
Low voter turnout for Tuesday's Lawrence City Commission and school board elections may lead to the closing of Allen Field House as a poll place in city elections.
Only 25 of 1.447 registered voters, or 2 percent, cast their ballots in the field house.
"I don't see any reason to open the field house for the next election two years from now," said Patty James, Douglas County clerk.
James decided to reopen the field house for city elections before the March 2 primary because three student candidates, Scott Dalton, Chander Jayaraman and Milton Scott, were running for election.
In this year's primary election, 28 students voted at the field house.
Voter turnout was low throughout the city. Of the 36,076 registered voters in Lawrence, 8,203, or 23 percent of the electorate, went to the polls Tuesday.
The field house closing means students living in Jayawker Towers, Stouffer Place Apartments, the residence halls on Daisy Hill and Oliver Hall will have to vote at Schwegel Elementary School, 2201 Ousdahl, in city elections.
The field house will remain open for national elections. Staffing the field house when so few people vote is not cost effective, Jaimes said. Staffing a precinct and printing the ballots cost about $300.
Jayaraman said cost was not a valid reason for closing the field house.
"When students put about $10 million to $15 million a year in this economy, that is a small price to pay," he said. "Voting is a basic right that everyone has. Making it harder for students to vote does not seem right."
James said that cost effectiveness was not the only reason for closing the field house in city elections.
"If the interest is just not there, I don't see any reason to keep it open, especially when Schwegler School is so close," she said.
Shelter provides security
Center serves as haven for women and children
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence shelter for women and their children is known by its residents, volunteers and staff as a place to rebuild lives.
Those who seek shelter have often fled from abusive relationships. For that reason, its location is kept a secret from everyone except victims of abuse.
The Women's Transitional Care Services is a collective shelter for battered women and abused children. It is now a temporary home to 17 women and children, said Beki McConnell-Cunningham, a staff member.
The shelter is run by four paid staff members and about 50 volunteers, of whom more than half are KU students, McConnell-Cunningham said. The shelter recruits students through speaking engagements on campus, mostly in law, social work, women's studies and psychology classes.
She said that the shelter offered one-on-one and group peer counseling, a safe place to live and, when needed, referrals to professional agencies.
For safety measures, the shelter screens each volunteer through training, she said.
"We do training for five to six weeks — for 40 to 45 hours total — before someone is given the location of the shelter," McConnell-Cunningham said. "People needing to be here to be safe depend on those kind of things."
She said that women who had fed to the shelter often became volunteers or staff
"I've been around six years this month," she said. "I came from a battering relationship — a battering marriage."
She lived six weeks at the shelter before
becoming a volunteer and then a paid staff member.
But she said not everyone who has worked there was a victim of abuse. And the extent of suffering from abuse varies with each shelter resident. Training helps volunteers understand various levels of abuse, which range from mental abuse to physical battering.
"Some people go through training and then say, I didn't even realize this was abusive," McCormall-Cunningham said.
The shelter's goal is to help women make their own decisions in their lives again. It is often the volunteers and the other abused persons who are most affected of abuse reestablish control over her life.
"The fact that we are a nonprofessional collective is known as people come into the shelter," McConnell-Cunningham said. "By the nature of a collective, everyone has to conserve before things change. So everything gets talked about a lot. That is so whether you have lots of input or a little bit of input, your input is still valuable."
Liane Davis, associate dean of social welfare, said she thought the peer counseling at the shelter was effective.
"I think it's excellent," said Davis, who is on a community advisory board, which helps raise money for the shelter. "I think that research shows that battered women respond better to counseling by other women who have been battered."
Shannon Casey, Lawrence resident and a volunteer at the shelter, helps recruitment by speaking in KU classes at the request of faculty.
Casey said that her interest in women's issues and the fact that she was in a battering relationship had led her to become a volunteer.
"We empower the women to choose what they want to do," Casey said. "It's their choice."
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April 10, 1993
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