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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.
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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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 49 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
October 30,1986
Skyline of KU to lose stack in the spring
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff write
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.
Allen Wiechert, the director, said the smokestack, which is behind Stauffer-Flint Hall, could be torn down in April or sooner.
"It all depends on the heating need," he said.
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
Contributions to the Kansas University Endowment Association decreased by about 4 percent in the 1985-96 fiscal year, but the number of donors, money allocated for scholarships and investment income increased significantly.
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
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.
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."
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.
DECISION '86, OCTOBER 29, 1986 11
Graves, Runnels run low-key race
The new tax code, which goes into effect in January, will reduce the number of deductions taxpayers can declare for contributions to
By Craig Herrmann
Both candidates in the race for secretary of state agree that the contest has been low-key
But at the center of the race is one crucial question — what the role of the secretary of state should be.
Bill Graves
Republican
Challenger
The secretary of state has three basic functions: to oversee elections in the state, to monitor corporations and to administer the Uniform Commercial Code, which deals with financial documents.
Bill Graves, the Republican candidate, and Judy Rumnels, the Democrat, also agreed that part of the challenge of this year's campaign was establishing name recognition.
SECRETARY OF STATE
Graves, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for almost five years and assistant secretary of state since January 1985, said he thought the secretary of state was an administrative position that should be primarily concerned with legislative policy. He said his six years in the secretary of state's office had made him familiar
with its duties.
For the first time since 1950, no incumbent is running. Secretary of State Jack Brier will not seek re-election after failing to gain the Republican nomination for governor in August.
"The secretary of state is not a policy-maker," said Graves, current assistant secretary of state. "The office requires a good administrator capable of properly carrying out policies handed down by the Legislature."
drive to Topeka to register items, such as articles of incorporation, or mail them to us," Graves said. "The satellite offices would make the secretary of state's office more accessible to people across the state."
Rumnels, serving her second term as a state representative from Topeka, said she thought the secretary of state's office had done an adequate job in the past. However, she said, she thought the position should have more of a leadership role, especially in the area of voter registration.
"I see the secretary of state as more of a preparation, more of an idea person," Runnels said. "Policy set by the secretary of state can make a big difference."
Graves said he would pay for the satellite offices through user fees.
Graves, a 33 year-old Salina native, said he would maintain many of the practices and policies of the current secretary of state's administration. However, he said, he did see ways to make the office more efficient.
Because the secretary of state's office deals with attorneys, bankers and accountants throughout the state, Graves said, he would propose putting satellite offices in Overland Park and Wichita.
"People currently must either
Graves also said he would propose streamlining the Uniform Commercial Code.
He said he would propose putting the responsibility for carrying out the code on the registrar of deeds in each county. This, he said, would simplify county and state record-keeping. Now, the state has the only filing system.
"Each registrar of deeds would have a computer terminal connection to the Topeka computer," he said. The connection would make accessing files easier and liens search more efficient in each county, he said.
Runnels, a 51-year-old Lawrence native, said that as chief election officer, the secretary of state should have responsibility not just for counting ballots, but for being an advocate of the voters.
To increase voter awareness, Runnels said, she proposed that the state distribute explanatory bailouts to voters two weeks
Judy Runnels Democrat Challenger
before Election Day so that the issues could be better understood.
"If we get people started voting in high school, they are more likely to become responsible voters," she said.
Runnels also said the secretary of state should "champion the cause of the democratic electoral process." To do this, Runnels said she would speak at high schools and public forums to promote the importance of voting.
Runnels, who was a jobbist for the Kansas State Nurses Association for seven years and a liaison to the state Senate for Gov. John Carlin for two years, said she thought the secretary of state should more actively promote voter registration by making high schools, driver's license bureaus and state offices permanent registration sites.
Treasurer candidates stress issues
By Atle Bjorge
Joan Finney, a 61-year-old Democrat, likes to talk about money she has brought back to Kansas during her 12 years as state treasurer and about cheap loans she has provided to poor farmers.
Republican challenger Larry Montgomery, 48, talks about the
changes he would like to make in the role of the state treasurer and the need for long-term economic forecasts.
Under state law, the state treasurer's job is to administer about $4 billion of state revenue and deposits in Kansas banks. The treasurer also makes investment decisions as one of three
Both candidates said they ran issue-oriented campaigns, but recently, Montgomery has charged that Finney is misusing state money by mailing posters and news releases at state expense.
members of the Pooled Money Investment Board.
STATE TREASURER
Joan Finney
Democrat
Incumbent
"It's one thing to be running scared," said Montgomery, who admits he is the underdog in the campaign. "It's another thing to use public money for your campaign."
Larry Montgomery
Republican
Challenger
Finney said the posters and news releases were intended to make people aware of the Kansas Funds for Kansas Farmers Program, which provides low-interest loans to farmers and small businesses.
The program began July 1985, and provides up to $50,000 in cheap loans to farmers who derive at least 70 percent of their income from farming.
Montgomery said the farm loan program originally was a good idea, but most of the loans now were going to wealthy farmers. This was because farmers once had to spend 25 percent of their income on interest payments to qualify for the loans, but now that qualification has been removed.
"The question is whether my picture is an asset for the program." Finney said. "Whenever I go campaigning, my husband says the same as when I go to the beauty salon, 'Lots of luck.'"
Finney, a graduate of Washburn University of Topeka.
Currently, 133 Kansas banks out of 623 participate in the program. The banks receive money from a pool of about $70 million in idle state funds. The banks are required to pay back the money, even if a farmer defaults on the loan.
Montgomery also said Finney traveled more than she needed to. He said that, during the last four years, Finney has spent 206 workdays out of state, he said, and attended about 15 conventions a year.
Fimley said she had "sweetened the offer four times," to make banks more receptive to the idea
made Kansas history in 1974 by being the first woman elected as secretary of state. She is seeking her fifth four-year term.
Travel, Finney said, is an opportunity to tell people about Kansas, and bring money back into the state. Montgomery's figures are misleading because they also include staff travel, she said.
"I've been very busy," she said, "and worked very hard to bring money into the state."
"I'm not saying she shouldn't travel," he said. "It's the amount."
Recently, she has worked with officials from 10 states to make the largest companies in the United States report unclaimed stock proceeds to Kansas. The money will go into the Kansas unclaimed property fund, she said.
Montgomery runs a Topeka-based consulting firm, the International Management Group, which works with the 500 largest companies in the United States. After he graduated from law school in 1966, he worked as a legislative consultant for the Alaska Legislature.
It is important to curb the cost of government to give the economy room to grow. Montgomery said, and the way to do that is to give government employees who save money for the state or bonus.
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