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University Daily Kansan, October 23,1980
County candidates differ on strategy
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
The challengers for the 2nd and 3rd District seats on the Douglas County Commission are promising an open, responsive commission if they are elected. The incumbents are standing on their records and denying charges that they have been isolated and unresponsive to the public.
The race is entering its final two weeks, and the four candidates have
Analysis
taken surprisingly different approaches in their campaigns for office. Their attitudes differ greatly.
Hayden Wood is a 60-year-old retired rural mail carrier who worked 30 years for the U.S. Postal Service. He is now a farmer and the Democratic challenger in the 3rd District race. He faces Republican incumbent Beverly Bradley, 47, who is chairman of the commission.
Wood has criticized the commission for what he calls "weak-knee decisions" and for being unresponsive to the public at times.
Bradley stands on her record.
In the 2nd District, Democratic challenger Herschel Hemphill came out of retirement at his neighbors' requests and entered the race.
HEMPHILL IS A 68-year-old farmer and retired county employee. He is campaigning door-to-door. Hemphil has said that he doesn't really care whether he loses the election but that he would be glad to serve if he wins.
Hemphill's opponent, incumbent Robert Neis, 56, a Republican, is advertising instead of campaigning. He said he thought he had done a good job fighting for his people a heart problem that forced him to miss about a month's work last year.
Bradley offers experience and a record that includes handling the County Commission's business single-handedly at one time last year when both Neis and Walter Cragan, 1st District commissioner, were appointed Cragan missed eight months of work after suffering a heart attack.
During her term, the county completed the construction of the Kansas River bridges, the Clinton Lake and the Turtle River resurfacing project on the county roads.
"Housing ambulances will be a big issue in the next few years," Bradley said yesterday. "We want to achieve a faster response time to the southwest part of the county, in the Clinton Lake area."
The Lone Star Lake project and nursing home issues also will be important during the next year, said Bradley.
the month Bob was gone. I think I proved I can handle any situation," the
"I've worked very hard, and during the eight months Walter was gone and
WOOD HAS CRITICIZED the commission for not publishing an agenda at least a day before a meeting. He also has said that commission business often was not made public until after action was taken.
"We need more taxpayers' input when you're spending taxpayers' money," Wood said. "If I'm elected, all meetings will be open meetings. There are no denied meetings, and there will be too accountability for all taxes levied."
He also pledged to supply published agendas before commission meetings
Bradley countered by saying, "I've got no secrets, and publishing agendas in advance like that just isn't practical for the work we sometimes have to do."
Wood has taken a friendly approach to his campaigning.
"I'm running on the premise, 'I'm your neighbor; come talk to me,' and I'm gonna do the best job I can," Wood said.
Bradley said, "I think I've been responsive and I think I've done a pretty good job. Each commission must make decisions and set policies. We have to be in line on the budget this summer, and I think I've been a good commissioner."
In the 2nd District race, Hemphill is admonished that he didn't really want to run.
"I really don't have any big issues," he said. "I offer responsible government. "I want to give the people a representative they can trust."
"I thought I was retired," he cried. "My neighbors asked me to enter the race."
HE SAID HE HAD no crushes and would not "start a revolution" if given the chance.
"I see no point in making a lot of promises, because just like all politicians, once you get elected, you will be able to keep them," Hempall said.
Hemphill spent 14 years in the county noxious weed department and two years in the county maintenance shop. He also has farmed. But he said the operation of the commission had never really affected him.
Neis does not understand the charge of unresponsive leadership. He said the commission would listen to anyone and had never turned anyone away.
He said his neighbors, however, had complained that the commission had taken his bid.
Neis, like Bradley, is seeking his health was not a factor in the election.
"I had a triple-bypass operation, and I have a clean bill of health," he said. "I was sitting back at my desk three weeks after my operation."
Neis' experience in the loan department at the Kaw Valley State Bank qualifies him for the commission post and the job of drawing up budgets, an
area in which his opponent has no experience, he said.
'My opponent is not up on things like I am; I am in touch with things, and I understand people's needs,' Neils said.
NEIS CONSIDERS the election an evaluation of his work during the past four years. That is the reason he is not campaigning. He said that if voters thought he had done a good enough job, they would re-elect him.
"If not, then they will vote me out because they think I haven't done my job," he said. "I don't know what else I wanted or what else I could have done."
Nees said his eight years of service on the county planning board qualified him for his commission job, and he was elected to the county government and accounting.
"It is easy to criticize when you don't realize how county government works," he said. "He has never been to a budget hearing in his life and doesn't know anything about budgets or understand them, as far as I know."
"I feel qualified to make a budget for Douglas County," he said. "It is a $10 million budget, and we probably would have had a three- to four-mill levy increase if we hadn't cut it like we did. It is a lot of responsibility."
Neis' experience working with heavy equipment also makes him better qualified, he said, because his opponent didn't have that kind of experience.
Dance workshop set for Saturday
Strains of music and tapping shoes will be heard during the 17th annual Tau Sigma Dance Symposium Saturday in Robinson Gymnasium.
Classes in beginning and intermediate advanced ballet, modern and jazz dance are scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Approximately 60 high school and college students from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, greater Kansas City area high schools, and other institutions. Visit the symposium, said Janet Hamburg, associate professor of dance.
Registration for the symposium will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the northeast door of the building.
Opening classes for the day will be in beginning ballet and intermediate-advanced modern dance from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Beginning jazz and intermediate advanced classes in modern dance are offered.
Beginning modern and intermediate-
advanced jazz dance classes will be fi-
nished on Saturday.
Classes will be in the Robbsen Gymnasium dance studios.
Teaching the classes will be Tanny Feid, a Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department jazz teacher; Alyce Dryfuss, a KU graduate working at the Lawrens School of Dugan, a ballet teacher for the Lawrence School of Ballet and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department; and Hamburg.
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- First elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1978.
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