University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1983
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Legislator seeks revision of visitation rights
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Diyorod parents could not move out of state with a child for more than 90 days without court approval and written consent from the other parent, according to a bill sponsored yesterday by a Senate committee.
Also under the bill, the parent paying child support could ask in a hearing that the costs involved in traveling to another state to visit a child, or in having the child travel back to Kansas or produced from child support payments.
In addition, a judge could reduce child support if the parent with custody moved the child out of state without permission.
STATE SEN. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, sponsor of the bill, said it would help ensure the visitation rights of a parent whose child had been moved out of state children had been moved out of state.
Some parents with custody of the children have moved out of state in order to avoid a difficult relationship with the other parent, Hess said.
As a result, the original visitation rights of the parent who remained in the household was denied.
Hess said the bill would mostly pertain to fathers, because custody had not historically been awarded to fathers Divorced Dads Inc., a group based in the Kansas City area, who him about introducing the legislation.
JACK PARADISE testified on behalf of Divorced Dads Inc. He said that under current law, if visitation rights were infringed upon, the parent without custody could only file a motion for contempt of court.
what happens in 99.9 percent of those cases is the judge gives a verbal handshake to the custodial parent, and the noncustodial parent pays $200 to $600 in legal fees to hear the custodial parent get chewed out."
He said that a parent often would
drive hundreds of miles to visit a child during the holidays but that the parent with custody would say at the doorstep that the child was sick.
He said Diverted Dads Inc. supported the bill, not because it would be to avoid paying child support, but that it would allow that a child could see his other parent.
"The children's needs for food, shelter and clothing aren't going to be met. They're going to have to rely on welfare," he said.
JIM ROBERTSON, a lawyer for the Kansas Child Support Enforcement Agency, said that withholding child support because of travel costs or an intringement in child care, as the children underage, could hurt children who depended on the support.
But Hess said courts would consider whether a child would suffer because child support had been reduced. In addition, he said that if a judge thought that it would be more expensive to raise a child in another part of the country.
STATE SEN. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, said, "All wrongs in this country, the way we operate, are solved by money. Kids might be hurt even more by being denied interaction with their father."
Robertson said that the Legislature needed to address visitation problems but that child support should not be used as a weapon to secure visitation rights.
Hess said the bill would only allow a judge the discretion to take away some child support if a child was moved out of state to an area of the country that would require expensive travel for a parent if the child was moved without permission.
"I think a judge's overriding concern is going to be in the best interest of the child." Hess said. "The bill is designed so that the screws a bit in the area of visitation
"If the bill's going to take bread off the table for the child or children, the judge is not going to exercise that
discretion. I've seen so much abuse by yanking the kids out of the state."
yanking the SAID also that similar legislation was passed last year in Missouri.
ton was passed last year in Missouri. Robertson, the attorney for the support agency, told the committee that the Legislature should send a manual to govern order that could force both taxes to pay for transportation.
State Sen. Paul Feleciano, D-Wichita, said he had been concerned about using child support as a means of bartering for visitation rights.
"We are really doing the best thing as far as that child is concerned!" he said.
FELECIANO SAID he supported the idea of requiring a hearing before a child was moved out of state. However, support should not be included in the bill.
State Sen Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, said he thought that the bill fairly addressed the problem of a parent leaving the state with children from a previous marriage.
The city's developer of record will present a modified plan for downtown redevelopment to the Lawrence City Commission, the Downtown Improvement Committee and the public at 7 p.m. tomorrow at City Hall.
Representatives from Sizeer Realty Co. Inc., Kenna, Lau, will present a modified version of a proposal accepted by the Downtown Improvement Committee and month. The committee should be told that asked what changes he made.
THE COMMITTEE acts as an advisory board to the city commission, which has final say in the selection of a plan for downtown redevelopment.
Sizeler to present modified proposal
Public comment will be limited to three minutes a person after the meeting.
An open house will be held before the presentation from 5:30 to p.m.
Bill calls for training of aides to improve nursing home care
The city commission will review the timetable for downtown redevelopment at its meeting at 7 p.m. today and set a date for action on Sizerel's latest proposal.
By DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Many elderly people are more afraid of nursing homes than they are of death, a representative for a foundation told a House committee vesterday.
However, improved training of nursing home aides might convince the elderly that they will receive good treatment, said Nadine Burch, a spokesman for the Kansas Coalition on Aging.
The House Public Health and Welfare Committee heard testimony yesterday on a bill that would require aides at nursing homes to receive 40 hours of training before they could provide direct care to elderly residents.
RICHARD MORRISSEY, director of the Office of Health Facilities of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that training nurse aides would improve the quality of care she offered to residents of nursing homes.
"What businessman would turn an expensive machine over to a new
employee before determining that the employee could operate the machine competently?" he asked. "Unfortunately, this is just what we do at the present time with frail and elderly residents of maring homes."
Current law says aides must be certified six months after they begin working at a nursing home. Aides must receive 90 hours of training to be
MORRISSEY SAID that of all nursing home staff members, aides had the lowest educational achievement, received the lowest pay and had the most negative attitudes toward the nursing home resident. Training will increase their confidence and reduce or eliminate their negative stereotypes of the aged.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that in communities that have large student populations, many nursing homes hired students for cheap help. But because the students seldom work six consecutive months at one nursing home, they do not have to meet existing training requirements.
SHE SAID she had talked to students
However, Dick Hummel, director of the Kansas Health Care Association, said requiring nursing homes to provide aides with 40 hours of training by a registered nurse would be difficult and expensive.
who had gone to work at nursing homes but who had quit shortly after starting. They had been scared and unprepared to handle the patients.
"If it were your mother, would you want untrained people to care for her?" Branson said.
The Kansas Health Care Association is an organization of more than 200 health care professionals.
HE PROPOSED that the committee amend the bill so that aides could begin performing tasks they learned in training before 40 hours of training was completed. He also proposed that any appropriate technical practical nurses or certified nursing aides, be permitted to train the aides.
Marilyn Bradt, a spokesman for Kansans for the Improvement of Nursing Homes, said the training or by the bill could be cost-effective.
Storms threaten royal yacht trip
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — A fierce storm swept in from the Pacific yesterday, raising doubts that the royal yacht could carry Queen Elizabeth II to Reagan's ranch. The Reagan today and imperiling the queen's visit to Reagan's ranch.
Prince Philip and the queen, who in the first speech of her western tour yesterday thanked Americans for supporting Britain in the Falklands War, may fly to Santa Barbara and back rather than chance the storm-tossed sea on the royal yacht Britannia, said spokesmen for the royal tour and the White House.
IN HER SPEECH at Los Angeles city hall yesterday, the first of her 10-day U.S. tour, the British sovereign hailed imperial support for Britain in the UK landscapes. War as an American history. Anglo-American alliance.
Her remarks appeared to reply to the pro-Argentine demonstrators who have appeared throughout her tour with anti-British placards.
Staff Reporter
Bv JEFF TAYLOR
The committee took no action on the bill.
currently, retail businesses are not required by law to ask each person who wants to purchase alcohol for identification. A business can be fines or lose its license, however, if a minor is caught purchasing alcohol.
TOPEKA - Retail businesses that sell alcoholic beverages would be required by law to ask all patrons for standardized identification, if a bill discussed in a House committee yesterday is passed.
ALSO, THE bill would establish as the only acceptable identification a valid driver's license or current non-driver's identification card. The Legs
islature is now trying to provide identification choices for non-drivers.
Tom Green, of the Kansas Retail Liquor Dealers' Association, told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that the criminal justice would discriminate against people who carry out-of-state identification.
Whether an out-of-state license would be accepted would be up to the discretion of the business, he said. And, he said, the bill would not completely alleviate the problems of obtaining falsified out-of-state identification.
Under the bill, police would charge a person arrested for using falsified identification with a Class A misdemeanor.
THE COMMITTEE also discussed tightening laws that prohibit the use of
State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, said some minors in the state had changed driver's licenses and had obtained falsified out-of-state licenses.
falsified out-of-state licenses by minors.
Duncan, a sponsor of the bill, told the committee that the bill was intended to crack down on people who use someone else's license for identification.
He said the bill would guarantee that the identification is checked by retail businesses.
Chris Graves, legislative director for the Associated Students of Kansas, testified that the student lobby group sponsored an effort to buy alcohol with fake identification.
identification be checked," she said. "We realize there may be great opposition to such a law by the segment of the population obviously over the legal age."
"we realize that there may be some serious problems in requiring that
IN FURTHER testimony, Duncan said that the Rev. Richard Taylor, of Kansans for Life at Its Best!, sent a message to the committee's support team asking them to include a profile picture along side a front view picture already printed on licenses.
Duncan said also that a Wichita youth approached him about introducing the bill, because he was upset that so many of his friends had been buying alcoholic beverages with their older brothers' or sisters' identification.
The committee is scheduled to continue discussion on the bill.
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Robert Foster, KU director of bands, is host for the event.
Band conductors' convention to visit KU, involve students
The American Bandmasters Association is the most prestigious and exclusive of all band organizations, Foster said.
Membership is by invitation only. Foster is one of only three Kansans who have been chosen for the group during its 48-year history.
The convention will be making its first visit to this region.
THE CONVENTION is to begin today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
"It's a big deal. For the kids here it's a very, very big deal," Foster said
students will participate in while they are in the band program, Foster said.
Thursday's activities will occur on the KU campus. Convention participants will visit museums on campus and attend a luncheon at the Kansas
TODAY AND tomorrow, convention participants will attend meetings during the morning and visit places of interest in Kansas City during the afternoon. Symphonic bands from the University of Nebraska and Central Missouri State University will perform in the evenings.
In addition, Thursday will be declared "Russell L. Wiley Day" in honor of Wiley, KU band director from 1934 to 1968.
THURSDAY EVENING, the KU Symptom Band will perform in the KU
The convention will continue Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
Detective Lyle Sutton said police had no suspects in the case.
Lawrence police detectives are investigating an armed robbery and a related kidnapping of KU student Sunday, a police detective said yester-
Bayes, who is an employee of the Big V Oil Co., 846 Iowa St. said she was preparing to make a deposit for the company at the night depository.
Police investigating robbery abduction of student at bank
Jessie Treu, Lawrence police officer,
said Barbara Bayes, Salina senior, was
held captive for about five minutes by a
man with a hunting knife.
TREU SAID the robber approached Bayes about noon Sunday as she was parking at the University State Bank, 965 Iowa St.
Treu said the robber stole a black bank bag full of money.
Bayes said she was told not to disclose the amount of the loss.
"He held the knife with one hand and drove with the other," she said.
She said the robber told her to close harrow as he drove around Lawrence.
She said the robber jumped from around a corner before she made the deposit and forced his way into her car.
"When he got in the car I had a pretty good idea of what he wanted," she said. "He put a knife to my side and said 'We're going on a little ride.'"
THE ROBBER got out of the car at Meadowbrook Apartment 101. Windshield wipers, hood scoop
Sutton said that after the robber left the car, he told Bayes to drive back to the Big V Oil Co. Bayes said she drove to the station and called the police.
treu described the assailant as a male, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 180 pounds. He was wearing an orange skim mask.
the KU Center for East Asian Studies
presents
COLLOQUIUM ON U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND TRADE RELATIONS:
A Series of Public Lectures Spring 1983
"The U.S.-China Economic Relationship Entering the Second Decade"
Christopher Clarke, Associate Director of Research,
The National Council for United States-China Trade.
Tuesday, March 1, 8:00 p.m.
Jayhawk Room (Union)
"Prospects for China's Agriculture: Growth and the Role of Foreign Trade"
Steven Butler, Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.
Council Room (Union)
"Energy and Energy Policy in China: Paradoxes and Prospects"
Thomas Fingar, Director of the U.S.-China Relations Program, Stanford University. Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m. Council Room
Other lectures coming in late March and April to be announced. All lectures open to the public at no charge
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