University Daily Kansan, March 4. 1983
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Hospice
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home regularly, and a therapist would have visited more often if Mrs. Schmacht had been able to participate in therapy.
"MANY TIMES my mother had no interest in doing anything," Jennish said. "But people were here to give her water or help her if she needed anything."
Mrs. Schmacht's religious convictions as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help her accept her death and make arrangements for it. Jennison said, "In death was a necessary step to eternal life, and that family members as soon as she went home to God."
Although Hospice promotes no religious faith, as percent of the recipients of Hospice care is after death, Memmott said Such beliefs comfort him and are struggling with the idea of dying, he said.
Contary to the fears that haunt many people, most deaths are peaceful, quiet, almost sacred.
MANY PEOPLE deny their deaths and bargain for extra time on earth, she said. They become angry and depressed. However, by the time death reaches terminally ill patients, they usually have experienced a full range of emotions, resolved conflicts and prepared themselves to die. Most of them do not really fear death when the end comes to them, she said.
Victims of terminal illnesses fight the disease with chemotherapy, surgery, drugs and denials. Workers help and visiting nurses work with soils and waste to prepare people to embrace death. Mammott said.
Unlike Mrs. Schmacht, who was always close to her family, many people leave family problems unresolved until shortly before their deaths. One woman, an alcoholic, alienated her entire family during her lifetime. Hospice care kept her from dying alone, and helped to reunite her with two of her family members. Memmott said.
"WHY DO PEOPLE have to wait until they are terminally ill to get the kind of care?" Marmaline asks.
Worrying, stress and depression can worsen the diseases, he said, but dying brings all the beauty, complexity and difficulty of life into sharp focus, he said.
Wherever people choose to die is where we care. "Mermott said: 'As long as caring is in the heart, you are happy.'"
Tax
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"They're out wrecking our industry, is all," he said. "The governor's proposal is in place. We'll have to take our licks now."
SEVERAL SENATORS who in the past had opposed any kind of severance tax again voted against the bill. However, Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, unquestionedly voted for the bill, along with Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, R-Iola.
An amendment to include salt was added to the bill during debate.
State Sen. Bert Chaney, D-Hutchinson supported the severance tax, but argued against including salt mining Chaney, whose district in southwest Kansas depends heavily on salt mining, said the amendment was an attempt to force him into voting against the tax.
"The severance tax is a good bill, and if you think I'm going to vote against it because you wear a black shirt," he said.
In another move, State Sen. Ed Roitz, R-Pittsburgh, tried to persuade the Senate to exempt the strip mining of coal. He said coal could be moved out of the state if a tax were imposed.
BUT STATE Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains,
said oil and natural gas industries were also in a slump and he said the coal industry should also be forced to pay the severance tax.
State Sens, Paul Burke, R-Leawood, and Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, told the Senate they were tired of efforts in the past three years to kill
a severance tax that was essential as a tax base for the general fund.
After nine amendments had been attached to the bill, Gaar submitted an amendment that was actually an earlier severance tax proposal that had been defeated in a Senate committee. Gaar's amendment added a 4 percent tax added onto county taxes already paid by some oil and natural gas producers.
Before the amendment was defeated 22-18, Gaar criticized the Senate for its cumbersome efforts in passing the tax.
"At some point, we get to clean the ship and we've got to go forward." Gaar said. "Let's get on with the business of government and be done with this."
IN ANOTHER amendment, Talkington persuaded the Senate to set aside $1 million from the revenue generated by the severance tax for people who have had problems paying utility bills.
Other exemptions from the severance tax include a deduction for mineral producers for the amount they pay for their field operations. And counties that assess an ad valorum tax against property values of mineral producers would receive part of the severance tax revenues to offset the revenues they would lose from not assessing those property taxes.
The Senate tried to include in the bill a provision that would eliminate credit that natural mineral producers would receive for not increasing their increased operating costs onto customers.
Regents
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and oil later passed by the Senate would boost revenues for the state's general fund.
IF ADDITIONAL money was available in the general fund, he said. Regents universities might be able to use the money.
However, Carlin's budget in January said the state would have to come up with an additional $38 million in revenues from some other sources, including the tax revenues of $138 million built into the budget.
The tax proposal passed by the Senate was
expected to generate only $77 million for the general fund, because of exemptions included in the proposal. The severance tax would create an additional $45 billion to the $83 million needed in Carlin's budget.
After the Senate session, Winter said he did not think that the Regents schools could realistically expect more money, unless other tax measures were passed this session.
He said he thought the state should consider a 1-cent sales tax, with an exemption for food. And user fees could be attached to such items as alcohol and cigarettes, he said.
Executions, rebels threaten pope's Central America visit
By United Press International
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Pope John Paul II's Central American tour suffered a major "insult" and a threat yesterday as Guatemalan officials executed six men at dawn and Salvadoran rebels vowed to begin a nationwide offensive to cut off transportation and electrical power in that country on Monday, the day after the pope's visit.
The firing squad executions — which ignored Vatican appeals — were regarded as a direct rebuff of John Paul's plea for peace and set up a potentially explosive confrontation if he visits Guatemala Monday, the sixth day of his eight-day tour of Central America.
ONE VATICAN source traveling with the pope said the executions were 'an affront to the pope' and 'a great shame'.
The pope exhorted 600,000 people at an open air mass yesterday in Costa Rica's Sabana Park to help the church "eliminate injustice" ... hatred for race," but made no mention of the executions.
Police at the public mass arrested an unidentified man who shouted "death to the pope." The man, with one report saying he wore a strap over his right eye of the pope and apparently carried no weapon.
GUATEMALAN President Erfrain Rios Montt, a "born again" Christian who abandoned the Roman Catholic Church, ordered the executions of 2014 protesters and is large as Guatemalan Protestants had recently
Speaking of the executions, the Rev. Romeo Pancoriello, the Vatican spokesman, said John Paul "expressed his most profound sorrow, a deep sadness almost on the eve of his visit to that country."
A Vatican communique said a Vatican official unsuccessfully sought to meet with Riomt to seek clemency for the six men—three convicted of espionage in hidding and rape by closed military tribunals.
Sources said Vatican officials had advised the pope to cancel the Guatemala trip because of its potential danger, but one Vatican official said there was no concern, there are no changes 'in the pope's itinerary.
The trip to Guatemala was complicated
because the pope was supposed to sleep there three or four nights, using it a base to visit other countries in the region.
VATICAN OBSERVERS said they thought John Paul probably would not cancel his visit to Guatemala because he feels that visit is important. The Catholic Church is sufferer, is important.
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, has said Rios Montt isponsible for the killings.
In San Salvador, El Salvador, rebels vowed yesterday to begin a nationwide offensive to cut off transportation and electrical power Monday. The United States hopes the divided Central American nation.
The guerrillas have called a unilateral truce for Sunday, when the pontifex is to spend about 10 hours in El Salvador as part of his eight-day Central American tour. But they rejected a ceasefire that Defense Minister Jose Gullilleo García proposed in honor of the pope's visit.
The rebels announced over Radio Venceremos that they would begin sabotage against the nation's electrical power station.
"Beginning Monday, we will initiate sabotage against all types of transportation on the cruise ship."
PREVIOUS sabotage campaigns have left much of the country without power and stopped many protests.
In Washington, a senior Pentagon official said the Reagan administration was considering increasing the U.S. role in El Salvador by increasing the number of U.S. military advisers and sending them into the field to train Salvadoran troops at the brigade level.
The pope will remain in Costa Rica until Friday, when he travels to Nicaragua, where five priests have defied a papal order to step down the Marxist-dominated Sandinista government.
John Paul's 15,000-mile tour of Central America — his 17th trip abroad since he was elected pope five years ago — also will take him to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.
On March 9, the pontifex leaves Central America for a brief stop in the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
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