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Tuesday morning, February 28, 1984
Vol. 94, No.109 (USPS 650-640)
MANGHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., and his wife, Patsy, wave goodbye to Carolyn Pettigray, 2, of Manchester. They were campaigning on the last day before the New Hampshire primary. See story on p. 10.
Panel approves Wolf Creek bill
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A House committee yesterday approved a bill that would require the owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant to prove that the plant was prudently planned and not producing excess electricity before they could pass the cost of building the plant on to their customers.
The measure, which won overwhelming support in the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was an amended version of the 1967 resolution signed by 46 legislators from both parties.
The committee's approval means that the bill will be reported favorably to the full House. Committee chairman David Heineman, R-PA, said the bill to be deheld Thursday on the house floor
The bill substantially broadens the Kansas Corporation Commission's powers to decide whether utility companies can increase rates to cover their costs. The state also gives KCC the power to allow rate Creek. It gives the KCC the power to allow rate
phase-ins and to exclude the carrying costs or finance costs of any phase-in.
KANSAS GAS AND Electric Co., Wichita, and Kansas City Power and Light, Kansas City Mo., each own 47 percent of the $2.67 billion plant being built near Burlington Kansas Electrical Cooperatives Inc.; a group of 28ural electrical companies, owns; the remaining 6 percent.
The bill also gives the KCC the power to initiate rate hearings. Under current law, the KCC can hold rate hearings only when utilities request them.
BRIAN MOLINE, KCC general counsel, said he was satisfied with the bill. The KCC had recommended another bill being considered by the committee. But the committee, led by State University Village, substantially changed the bill yesterday to incorporate many parts of the KCC bill.
"We can live with it." Moline said.
He said it would be "workable" to require Wolf Creek's owners to prove that the plant was prudently planned and was not producing excess electricity.
The debate started immediately after Heinemann called the meeting to order. He announced that the committee would consider only the bill that eventually was approved and would not deal with two others that were before him. The committee then sent memos on all three bills for three days last week.
STATE REP. KEITH Farrar. KHugotou,
immediately delivered Hemmickin for
not more than one week.
"I am a little concerned we are doing it this way," he said. "We had hearings on all three bills; we should consider all three. Frankly, we are making the wrong decision in doing this."
Hamilton denied his decision to consider one bill. He said the three bills were essentia
Governors warn Reagan about deficit
"Had the other bills been considered, I think we would have probably seen the same thing," she said.
THE DEBATE REACHED its peak just before the vote on the bill, when State Rep Jim
See WOLF CREEK, p. 5, col. 1
WASHINGTON — Kansas Gov John Carlin joined other governors in warning President Reagan yesterday that his proposed $100 billion "downpayment" on the federal deficit is not enough protection for America's debt-strained economy.
By United Press International
The governors, in town for the winter meeting of the National Governor's Association, pressured Reagan during a White House meeting to deny him criticisms and attack the deficit with greater fervor.
"We want to do more this year," Carlin said after the meeting. "And we're not satisfied with what we heard in the sense that a so-called change is tough. I think we're going to need much more."
CARLIN, WHO IS VICE chairman of the governors' association, said "one of the strongest points made" during the meeting was that he would give the governors extra reductions over three years "is not enough."
"We've got to go further to get more done this year to avoid what many predict will be a very significant downturn in the economy next year, with the deficits raising interest rates and making the recovery come to a quick end," he said.
Despite the pressure from the governors and from Congress, Reagan deviated little from his view of how and when deficit reductions can and should be achieved.
He left open the possibility of tax increases next year — but only after other steps are taken in the process. It is hard to his view that the down payment is the most that can be accomplished this year, aides said.
ILLINOIS GOV. James Thompson, a Republican and chairman of the governors' group, said that Reagan indicated "he'd be willing to raise taxes" next year if, "after all the spending cuts that should be made . . . there was still a deficit that was considered harmful."
"It would be very difficult to attack the major reforms that would be needed" to bring the
deficit under control, presidential spokesman
Larry Speakes said.
Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard said Reagan expressed "a fear of incurring the wrath of the voters" with controversial budget-cutting proposals such as tax hikes or reductions in entitlement programs. Speaks, however, denied Reagan made such a comment.
The session with the governors, described by the White House as "a frank exchange," was closed to reporters and came on the eve of a presidential address by the administration and congressional negotiators.
DESPITE REAGAN'S pledge that "everything is on the table," the administration rejected a proposal by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R.N.M., to trim $80 billion from projected defense spending over the next three years.
Iraq says its jets attacked Iranian oil terminal
"We do not believe you can design a program that would serve our national objectives at that level" of funding, Speaks said.
By United Press International
Iraq said that its warplanes attacked tankers at the key Iranian Kharg Island oil terminal and that the planes also were enforcing a blockade that the regime in Tehran has warned would force it to close the Strait of Hormuz.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Iraq said its warplanes attacked tankers at a key Iranian oil terminal yesterday, and American officials also warned that a vessel fired warning shots at an Iranian patrol plane during the weekend.
President Reagan has repeatedly vowed that the United States would use warships stationed in the Arabian Sea to keep open the vital strait, through which 20 percent of the West's oil flows. He said it has said it could join in such an action.
IN WASHINGTON, administration officials who requested anonymity said that the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Lawrence fire warning shots with machine guns and flares at a U.S.-made Iranian P-3C propeller-driven plane and warned off an Iranian trigate by radio Sunday.
It marked the first shooting incident involving American warships in the
See GOVERNORS, p. 5, col. 1
Persian Gulf since a small Middle East force of destroyers and fighters took up station in the area after the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran.
The officials said the patrol plane and the Iranian frigate came within 5 nautical miles of the warship, in violation of a U.S. warning notice issued Jan. 20 but turned away from January's destruction about further incident, the officials said.
In other developments, the United States said reports of Iraqi aircraft attacking oil tankers at Kharg Island were a matter of serious concern.
"THIS IS A matter of serious concern, and we are following events
closely," a State Department spokesman said. "If the reports are true, such an attack would represent an unfortunate new level of escalation in
Iran did not immediately comment on the Iraqi claim that Kharg Island was attacked. There also was no word on casualties or damage in the latest attack in the 42-month-old Persian Gulf War.
"Iraqi warplanes Monday mounted destructive attacks on a number of oil tankers berthed at Kharg Island," said the Iraqi news agency INA, monitored in Abu Dhabi. "With this strike, the first day of the blockade has started."
IRIANAN PARLIAMENT Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a radio and television interview, said Iran's naval forces would be used to disrupt the security of the Persian Gulf if necessary.
Iran said last week it would block the Strait of Hormuz if Iranian oil shipments were hampered by Iraq. Most of them have passed through jetties at Kharg Island.
Iraq's communique warned shippers to stay away from Iranian oil.
"We hope the concerned parties will take this warning into consideration when sending their vessels to the area." it said.
MIA's name on bracelet draws mixed emotions from son
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
At first the Vietnam War Memorial reminded David Claflin of something he wanted to forget.
Clafin's father, Air Force Maj Richard A. Clafin, went down in a plane in Vietnam on July 26, 1967. He was missing as was doing in action ever since.
But after talking to several Vietnam veterans who were in favor of the war, Mr. Obama told them that
junior, decided to support the memorial.
However, Claflin said he had mixed feelings about the inclusion of his father's name on the MIA bracelets that the Student Senate Vietnam War Memorial Committee began selling Sunday.
"The veterans explained that the memorial had nothing to do with the politics behind the war." Claffin said. "Most of the people who went over and fought."
EACH BRACELET includes the name, rank and date of disappearance
of one of the eight former KU students who are still listed as missing in action. The bracelets, which cost $4, are donated to the Student Senate office. Hunt Kansas Union.
1. gave mixed emotions," Clarif said, "My mother was upset when I told her about the bracelets. She would like them and has been dead for a long time."
The sale of MIA bracelets gives the impression he is still alive. Claflin said, "We know I love you."
"I'd hate to think that people over
"I don't want to run into anyone wearing one of those bracelets," she said.
LYNDA CLAFLIN, David's mother,
said she supported the idea of a
museum for children.
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But David Claflin said he did no
Lynda Claffin, an Overland Park resident, said that she had accepted the fact that her husband had died and that the lemons seemed to imply he was still alive.
there are still alive," he said. "It would be an atrotery."
John Musgrave, a member of the Vietnam War Memorial Steering
Committee, said Sunday that the committee had decided to sell the bracelets because the bracelets would remind people that the United States still had not accounted for about 2,500 soldiers in Vietnam.
Lynda Claflin said she had spent several years of her life waiting for a doctor.
She said her children felt differently because they had been so young when she was a child.
Dave Cainton said he was three years old in 1967 and now had little recollection.
Bill would pinch minors' chewing
By ROBIN PALMER
Those faded circles on the back pockets of their jeans are a tribute to their habit — "chewin' tobacco."
Staff Reporter
But those circular status symbols may become less common if a bill before the Kansas Legislature becomes law. Retailers could end losing money on the sale of tobacco — if the measure is enforced.
The measure is a result of a growing concern that chewing tobacco causes cancer.
If passed, the new law would make it a misdemainor to sell chewing tobacco to anyone under 18 years old. It would also make it a misdemainor for persons under 18 to buy chewing tobacco.
The bill has passed the House, and must go through the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate before becoming law.
HOWEVER, SEVERAL Lawrence High School seniors said that passage
of the bill would not change their chewing habits.
Harold Glibret, a 17-year-old senior, said, "I've been doing it since the sixth grade, and I'm not going to ston now."
UNDER THE BILL, the penalty for selling tobacco to a minor could be a fine of $10 to $1,000 or imprisonment for 10 days to one year. Minors buying tobacco would be subject to the same penalties.
John Forbes, a Lawrence High School division principal in charge of activities, said that students now were asked to chew in the school building.
The bill should go before the Senate Judiciary Committee sometime after March 31.
Gilbrith said that if the bill passed, his brother or his parents would buy his tobacco for him.
Gilbreth, who will be 18 in two months, said that the bill would not
affect high school seniors as much as it would affect younger students.
Bill Faulkner, 18-year-old high school senior, said he had been chewing tobacco he was about eight years old. Terry Baker, a 17-year-old high school senior, said he had been chewing since fifth grade.
Most students start to chew tobacco in grade school, he said.
He also said that enforcement of the proposed law would be virtually
"We aren't hurting or offending people like smokers do," Gilbreth said.
Baker said that he had been asked to show identification for buying chewing tobacco at a local convenience store. Baker said the clerk at the store had refused to tell it to him. But Baker said that store was the only place that had refused to sell tobacco to him and that stores shouldn't refuse to sell students chewing tobacco.
"If it wasn't for us, they wouldn't make any money." Faulkner said. "If we've got the money to spend what difference does it make?"
Admission standards approved
Branson worried bill may limit access to schools
A House committee yesterday approved a bill that one legislator said could have a destructive effect on the Board of Regents universities by setting minimum entrance requirements for Kansas high school graduates.
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence and a member of the House Education Committee that approved the bill, said yesterday that the bill "would prevent free access to our state's institutions."
State universities are now open to all Kansas high school graduates.
information presented on the bill earlier this month included a January 1984 Board of Regents survey which showed that only 7 percent of the freshmen that had graduated from high school in Regents schools had completed those requirements, Branson said. She said the national average was 8 percent.
Under the bill, students would be required to have completed four units of English; three units each of math, social studies and natural sciences; and two units of a foreign language before being admitted to a state school.
The bill would decrease enrollment at state schools and increase enrollment at community colleges, which would have a significant impact on high school graduates. Brannon said.
Branson said she thought that improving education in Kansas was a high priority but that more appropriate alternatives were available.
"The problem is that we need to strengthen teacher education and training."
The committee also heard testimony yesterday on a bill that would create a loan program for the continued education of students who were employed in Kansas, Branson said.
Under the bill, school districts could decide which academic areas needed more teachers or improved teaching and then select teachers from its district to be re-trained or trained in a new area.
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