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Tuesday, February 13, 1979
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Firm wants coal pipeline
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A- An offense prepared by Energy Transportation Systems Inc. of Wichita yesterday attempted to dent the coalition's railroads and against a coal shovel pipeline in Kansas.
Additional testimony in support of the bill came from representatives of agriculture.
Fourteen persons testified before the Kansas House Judiciary Committee in support of the pipeline, which would carry a gasoline truck from Wyoming through Kansas to Arkansas.
The bill's sponsor, Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, sale, the bill addressed two questions; whether railroads should be allowed to corner the market in coal transport and what role the state should play in solving the energy crisis.
The firm is seeking passage of a bill that would grant it the right to "limited eminent domain" in laying down its 1,400 mile pipeline.
Eminent domain is the state's right to take land from handwonders when it is needed.
UNDER THE BILL, the company would be allowed to run its pipeline under railroad tracks across Kansas. Private land crossed by the pipeline would be bought by the company at a fair price, officials of the company said.
The $1 billion pipeline would be completed in 1983 if Kansa and Nebraska, the last two states refusing to permit the pipeline, approved this year.
A former House speaker, Duane S. "Pete" McGill, now lobbyist for the energy firm, led testimony before the committee.
"Never have I encountered more rumors, untruths, half-truths, misrepresentation and distortion of the facts that have existed relating to this issue." he said.
McGill said the pipeline would provide an economical means of transporting coal from state to state. Because of an expected increase in the use of coal, McGill said that an additional means of transporting it would be necessary soon.
MCGILL ALSO said that the pipeline would end a railroad monopoly on the transport of coal. He said because the pipeline would give the railroads competition, it would keep energy and transportation prices down.
Walter Hale, a lawyer representing Energy Transportation Systems, told legislators the company was not trying to "get a foot in the door" to extend their rights of eminent domain to include private property.
IN RESPONSE to committee members' questions about the benefits to Kansas from the pipeline, a company representative said Kanssan would be eligible to contract for coal. However, he said, once the pipeline was built and had been contracted up to its capacity, Kanssan's year there was no assurance Kanssan customers could contract for coal.
He said if Kansans wanted to sign up for pipeline coal under a long-term contract, the pipeline could be enlarged to carry 33 million tons of coal a year.
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stolen and we needed to make investigations and arrests in the city of Lawrence. Under the present statute it is required that either it could have been done," he said.
DENNEY SAID that Lawrence and Douglas County police also supported the bill.
"The reason is because the schools are in urban areas," he said. "The need is very great at the Med Center where we have many students and faculty who park in several cases. Last year, there were several cases where students were robbed or assaulted."
KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he thought the KU Med Center and WSU were the two campuses that needed expanded police protection most.
TOPEKA-Testimony on a bill that would broaden the jurisdiction of campus police at the Kansas Board of Regents schools was heared yesterday by members of the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bil Coffman, of the Regents staff, Milt
Meyers, police director at Wichita State
University and Jim Denney, director of
police services at KU, Lawrence and
Medical Center campuses, spoke in behalf
of the bill.
Campus police bill supported
The bill's only opponent was State Sen. Arbold麻恩, D-Dawrence, who said he thought Lawrence had enough police patrolling 32rd or Iowa streets.
Under the bill, which was introduced last week at the request of the Regents, campus police would be allowed to expand their jurisdiction to any property owned by
Campus police also would be allowed to patrol streets immediately adjacent to
a Regents school endowment association,
association, fraternities or
 Sororities.
CAMPUS POLICE are restricted to awe- owned and operated by the university.
Denney told the committee that although the current law seemed to be effective, it amended it.
"More than $20,000 in state property was
Another example given by Denney was a recent theft of KU property.
"We are confronted daily with problems that are out of our jurisdiction. We can act off-campus at the request of the local police, which is not practical," he said. accidents, this is not practical," he said.
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