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It's now or never for top KU tennis player Mike Wolf. He will make his third and final attempt at becoming an All-American this weekend at the Volvo All-American Tennis Championships at UCLA.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden stopped in Lawrence today to speak on campus and to attend a rally at the local Republican Headquarters.
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Today will be partly cloudy, windy and mild with a high temperature in the 60s Tonight will be cloudy and cool.
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Vol. 97, No. 49 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
October 30,1986
Staff write
Skyline of KU to lose stack in the spring
By KIRK KAHLER
KU's 257-foot smokestack will be demolished and replaced with two 15-foot smokestacks in the spring, the university director of facilities planning said yesterday.
"It all depends on the heating need." he said.
Allen Wiechert, the director, said the smokestack is behind Staufer-Flint Hall, could be torn down in
The smokestack has been operating at the University since 1921 and is used to discharge residue from the burning oil or natural gas fuel used to create steam in the power plant's boilers.
At the end of the winter heating season, two boilers at the University power plant will be modified for the
KUEA reports drop in contributions, increase in donors
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
Contributions to the Kansas University Endowment Association decreased by about 4 percent in the 1985-86 fiscal year, but the number of donors, money allocated for scholarships and investment income increased significantly.
According to the Endowment Association's annual report, released yesterday, 32,326 donors contributed $13.4 million to the Endowment Association to support the University. This figure is down from $13.9 million contributed by 30,000 donors in 1984-85.
In fiscal year 1986 KUFA reported
drives, he said.
"From a future standpoint, these modest donations are a key factor." Seymour said. "It gets people into the habit of giving, and these people will probably give more later, when they are able."
Parker challenges Solbach again
However, Seymour said he was concerned that the tax reform law that President Reagan signed recently, in addition to the state of the Kansas economy, would discourage possible donors.
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The new tax code, which goes into effect in January, will reduce the number of deductions taxpayers can declare for contributions to
By Pam Miller
The race for the Kansas House of Representatives seat in the 45th District comes down to
two ideas - experience and representation
The incumbent, State Rep. John Solbach, a Democrat, is focusing his campaign on the experience he has gained from being the 438th's representative for eight years.
His opponent, Republican Martha Parker, said she would be more representative of the 45th district.
Both have been walking the streets and knocking on doors of the residents of the district, which comprises Clinton, Kawanaka, Lecompton, Marion, north and west Wakarusa, Willow Springs townships and the far north, south and west parts of Lawrence.
Martha Parker
Republican
Challenger
However, the similarity ends with the campaigning tactics of the two candidates.
Solbach, an attorney serving his fourth term, said he knew the people of the district by getting out and talking with them and by working for them.
"Each time they re-elected me, I was elected by a larger number of constituents," he said. "Those are the rolls I believe in."
"People know who I am. If people have opinions, I am accessible."
Parker said she didn't think he heard the district's opinions well enough. She contends, as she did when she ran against him two years ago, that he does not vote as his constituents want.
During the campaign, Parker surveyed the district. The responses, she said, indicated that Solbach's activity in Legislature did not follow the attitudes of his constituents.
Seven percent of the constituents, or about 750 people, returned the survey. Parker said.
Of those who returned the survey, almost 83 percent were for the death penalty and 84 percent were for the $1 million cap on courts' damage awards to victims of medical malpractice. Solbach voted against both in the House.
Parker said that when she ran against Solbach two years ago and was defeated, she didn't give people a reason not to vote for him.
45TH DIST. KANSAS HOUSE
Solbach he had made all of his choices in the Legislature with more than just public opinion in mind.
"The democratic process is such that we elect people who have the ability to develop
"I didn't criticize his record; my ads were milquetoast," she said. "I was just going through the motions."
legislative skills," he said. "Public opinion polls are important.
"Sometimes the public opinion is the controlling factor in a situation, but not to the exclusion of other facts, figures and experience."
If re-elected, Solbach said he would work to increase the salaries of the faculty members at the University of Kansas.
Solbach also wants to expand the use of the raw materials the state produces.
"We could become a milling capital — sell flour instead of wheat; be said, adding that the among the benefits would be who?
If Parker is elected, she said she would work to change some of the tactics used in decision-making processes that affected her district. She cited the proposed Lawrence highway bypass, which would run south of the city, as an example.
John Solbach
Democrat
Incumbent
Parker said that she was concerned because the money to pay for the project — city, state and federal funds — would come essentially from taxes.
Parker contends that local and state officials made the decision to build the bypass without getting taxpayers' opinions. The project is on hold until the U.S. Congress allocates federal money to help pay for it.
"I would like to see hearings precede decisions," she said. "There should be a limit on the amount county commissioners would indebt taxpayers. When the money gets up in the millions, people should have a say on whether they want to foot the bill.
"The people in rural areas are having a hard time. There are people in the city on fixed incomes, low incomes.
Both candidates are residents of rural western Douglas County.
Parker, 57, lives with her husband. Bob, on a farm in Clinton Township.
one is a curator of Clinton Museum and owns Parker-Laird Enterprises, a home-based operation that sells Clinton memorabilia and publishes a book about Clinton history.
Solbach, 39, lives in Kanwak Township in a renovated barn with his wife, Patricia, a medical researcher at Topeka's Menninger Foundation.
Casad struggles to upset incumbent
publican candidate Ben Casad faces a struggle in the 61th District race in an attempt to wrest a
an attempt to upset a democrat incumbent, State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, who has been a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for seven years. Casad said he felt the residents
He said Charlton usually voted party line, and he felt many people in the district were not being beard.
of the 46th District deserved a more independent representative in the Legislature.
Charlton, however, said she had represented her constituency
46TH DIST. KANSAS HOUSE
By Pamela Spingler
Ben Casad
Republican
Challenger
Betty Jo Charlton Democrat Incumbent
The 46th district consists of Lawrence east of Massachusetts Street. It also includes neighborhoods between Massachusetts and Michigan streets from 19th to Ninth streets, with the exception of the Plymouth Church precinct. The University is included in the district.
well. She has lived in the district since 1945, when she was a freshman at the University of Kansas.
She said she regularly campaigned door-to-door to find out people's concerns in the district.
Casad recently attacked Charlton on her voting record in the House, saying she didn't turn up for a vote. University or of the community.
He said Charlton didn't do everything possible to release funds for the University.
In an opening statement at a recent press conference, Casad said, "Because the House of Representatives moved or deleted the fee release from the Regents funding bill, KU did not receive funds it was actually entitled to."
Charlton countered by saying
Casad didn't understand the fun ding method.
Charlton and Casad also differ on their views of the three "sin" amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot.
administrations of the Charlton said she didn't see the three issues — liquor by the drink, lottery and pari-mutuel betting — as economic development. She said the reason for her opposition votes was she thought the bills were flawed.
She said liquor by the drink was flawed because it allowed each county to decide on the issue and because the law requiring establishments to make at least 30 percent of their profits from food would be hard to enforce.
"High-income people just don't buy their share of the tickets," she said.
She said the lottery resolution was an unfair way to collect taxes because low-income people buy more lottery tickets than high-income people.
Pari-mutual betting isn't profitable because the state tax is too high, she said, which would keep bettors away from the tracks. If voters approved the amendment, the state would set
the tax at between 3 percent and 6 percent.
The death penalty is another point of contention between Charlton and Casad. Gov. John Carlin has vetoed legislation to reinstate it four times since he took office in 1979.
Although both have reservations on the issue, Casad said he would favor passage of the bill if capital punishment was given only for certain crimes.
Charlton said she opposed the amendment because she thought it wouldn't be administered fairly.
Casad, 29, grew up in Lawrence and attended the University for two years. He also attended Southern Illinois University and Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, but never received a degree.
He recently resigned his job, working a campus vending machine route, to dedicate more time to his campaign.
Charlton, 63, is a KU graduate with a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science. She teaches a section of Western Civilization at the University.
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