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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 7, 1986
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Hearings aimed at 'sin' laws Panel hopes for speedy action on amendments
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A legislative committee will begin hearings next week aimed at drafting legislation to carry out the three "sin" amendments voters approved during Tuesday's general election.
Leaders of the panel said they hoped for quick action when the Kansas Legislature convened in January.
"We will move very swiftly on our work," said Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, chairman of the Special Committee on Federal and State Affairs. The committee will seek to govern the newly approved lottery, pari-mutuel wagering and liquor-by-the-drink amendments.
The vice chairman of the committee, Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said he hoped proper legislation would be pre-filed before the 1987 session began. The panel scheduled three days of hearings for next week.
Gov.-elect Mike Hayden also said he hoped the start-up measures would be enacted quickly because voters said they wanted them carried out fairly and quickly.
"I think we're going to move with expediency to get them implemented," Hayden said. "We're also going to make sure they're squeaky clean, that criminal elements cannot take advantage of them and that Kansas will benefit."
All three propositions were approved on Tuesday by margins between 60 and 64 percent. Limited public liquor by the drink and pari-mutual wagering would be legal only in counties where the proposals gained a majority of the vote.
Although Reilly said he thought it would be a great disservice to the state if the Legislature stood in the way of implementation, Miller recalled past legislative battles over those issues and said he was unsure when the Legislature would pass the proposals.
"In the past on liquor bills, there was always a lot of maneuvering to put in provisions that were designed to get around our liquor laws a little bit more," said Miller, chairman of the standing House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Miller also predicted that opponents of liquor by the drink and gambling issues, such as the Rev. Richard Taylor and his anti-liquor, anti-gambling group called Kansans For Life at Its Best', would work hard to make creating legislation as restrictive as possible.
Taylor confirmed that prediction and said, "I'll try to minimize the personal, social and economic damage caused by increased availability of our most abused drug and by the public swindle called lottery and pari-mutuel betting."
Hayden, who supported the lottery but voted against resolutions to put the liquor-by-the-drink and parimutuel issues on the ballot, said he wanted to see the lottery become the top legislative priority because it would produce the most revenue.
Researcher to study programs for disabled
Mark Mathews hopes that elderly and disabled people across the country will benefit from his next year of research.
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Last month, the National Institute of Handicapped Research in Washington awarded a $50,000, one-year, post-doctoral fellowship to Mathews, a research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living.
Mathews began his research Oct. 1, and will travel across the country through Sept. 30, 1987, to examine and compare different programs used by research and training centers for both disabled and elderly people.
Mathews said he would study as many programs as possible. The institute finances 35 research and training centers. About 400 independent living programs exist across the country.
"The fellowship will give me the opportunity to take a year off and look at how the different centers operate and how they can benefit others," Mathews said.
harm they can cause. Mathews will compile his findings into reports that he will deliver to the institute in Washington and distribute to U.S. research and training centers.
"Each 'R' and 'T' center has a slightly different focus on the aspects of independent living for the disabled and elderly," Mathews said. "Despite their innovations, they don't seem to have an effective way of sharing their
Mathews, formerly of Topeka, said he would try to develop ways to catalog innovations in independent living.
so the center's could have easy access to information. "Often, one center may develop an innovation, say for
people with high spinal injuries," he said. "Across the country, there may be other centers that might be able to benefit from those findings, but they simply don't have an easy way to learn about them."
Right now, Mathews said, about the only way for centers to learn about other centers' discoveries is for researchers to read the various journals being published.
Unfortunately, centers have trouble keeping track of innovations described in the thousands of articles published each year, he said.
"A person could literally spend all of his time reading, with no time to actually do anything with the findings."
Mathews, who holds a bachelor's degree in human development and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas, credited the entire staff's research efforts for his fellowship opportunity.
"Without the work being done by the rest of the people in the research and training center here at KU, my research wouldn't be possible." Mathews said.
He said that an average of 12 research projects were conducted in the center at any given time, with five doctoral-level researchers and 12 graduate students conducting them.
These projects, Mathews said, range from helping make community areas more accessible to the disabled, to researching the problem of handicapped parking violations.
Mike Jones, another research associate, said he thought Mathews' fellowship would benefit the KU center.
Tom Thornton/KANSAN
Mark Mathews, research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living, has received a $50,000 fellowship for research from the National Institute for Handicap Research in Washington, D.C.
Hayden to appoint his transition team
United Press International
TOPEKA — Governor-elect Mike Hayden yesterday said that he probably would announce the members of his transition team today.
In a brief interview in the speaker's office, Hayden said he was deciding who would be on the team, which would work with a similar team from Gov. John Carlin's staff to smooth the change in administrations.
In addition, Sue Peterson, his administrative aide and campaign manager, said Hayden probably would comment on the newly-revised general fund revenue estimate.
Hayden told United Press International he might retain two or three members of Carlin's cabinet when he assumed the governorship. Although he said he was not ready to name names, he said it was likely some of the Carlin cabinet would remain in office.
The Hayden win sent tremors throughout state offices housing Democratic appointees, particularly those workers who are "unclassified," in other words, unprotected by the state civil service system.
At the top of cabinet secretaries who might be expected to remain in office is Secretary Robert Harder of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Harder, the first and only secretary to head SRS since its formation from the old Welfare Department, has served under Govs. Robert Docking, Robert Bennett and Carlin.
Unlike the last change in administrations, there are few places for ousted employees to go. When Democrat Carlin defeated Republican Bennett in 1978, Republican Robert Stephan also ousted Democratic Attorney General Curt Schneider.
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