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Big, bad Wolf
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.
Whistle stop
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden stopped in Lawrence today to speak on campus and to attend a rally at the local Republican Headquarters.
Breezy street
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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
Stait writer
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 season, two boilers at the University route, 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 1965-86 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
DECISION '86, OCTOBER 29, 1986 9
usiasts betting on Kansas voters
By Sally Streff
and down the stretch they come. Less than two weeks
"All three of these issues will be harmful to the people of this state." Taylor said.
before the Nov. 4 general election, supporters of a state constitutional amendment that would legalize pari-mutual wagering in Kansas say the odds are with them to win the voters' support.
One of the three so-called "sin" amendments on the ballot, parimutuel wagering has not attracted many campaign dollars this fall from either side.
Rev Richard Taylor, president of the Topeka-based lobbying group, Kansans for Life at Its Best!' said his group stunched pari-mutuel wagering
According to a poll commissioned last month by the Kansas City Times and CBS television affiliates in Kansas City and Topeka, 64.8 percent of the 412 registered voters surveyed said
Proponents predict the amendment will pass easily. The only group to officially oppose the amendment is concentrating more of its efforts on the two other "sit" issues — lottery and liquor by the drink.
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
they favored pari-mutuel wagering, 31.8 percent opposed it and 2.2 percent were undecided.
The new tax code, which goes into effect in January, will reduce the number of deductions taxpayers can declare for contributions to
The amendment would permit the Kansas Legislature to regulate, license and tax horse and dog racing and pari-mutuel wagering on horse and dog racing. The tax on the wagering would be between 3 percent and 6 percent.
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.
Only non-profit organizations would be allowed to operate race tracks in the state. But any organization could build a track and then lease it to a non-profit organization.
If Kansans adopt the amendment, the Legislature still must pass legislation to set up the regulations for such an industry. Tentative legislation was drawn up during this year's legislative session.
Supporters say that pari-
The amendment comes with a county option, which means that a majority of the voters in a county must vote for the amendment for it to be legal there. A county also could vote to allow pari-mutuel wagering in the county in a later election.
mutuel wagering would help strengthen the state's economy.
Kansans for Pari-Mutuel has been pushing for pari-mutuel wagering to be put on the ballot as a constitutional amendment for the past five years.
But George Smith, a lobbyist for the organization, said his group had not mounted an extensive advertising campaign this fall and had purchased no television advertising.
Instead, Kansans for Pari-
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the people of Kansas, Smith said,
speaking to organizations across
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"We're not going to be complacent." Smith said, although he predicted the amendment would pass with 60 percent of the vote.
In addition to Kansans for Pari-Mutuel, many trade organizations and chambers of commerce have spoken in favor of the amendment, Smith said, and last fall Gov. Carlin voiced his support.
Proponents such as Smith said pari-mutuel wagering would pump money into the state government, through the tax on wagering, and into the private economy, through tourism and increased horse and dog
"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."
breeding.
drives, he said.
In addition, Smith said, there would be a greater demand for horse and dog food and other products for track animals.
"We've never said it would solve all the financial problems of our state," Smith said. "Nothing's going to do that. But it will help."
Opponents, however, argue that gambling is socially detrimental and that racing dogs and horses is cruel.
The Kansas City area will support only one race track, he said, so developers will be competing to get one built.
"It's going to be a horse race with Missouri." Smith said.
Roland Smith, a member of the Wichita Independent Business Association, said legalized betting would take away millions from small businesses. He spoke at a recent debate sponsored by a Wichita television station, KAKE.TV.
But George Smith said he didn't think a large number of race tracks would open in Kansas because Missouri has parimutuel wagering.
State leaders at odds over lottery
By Tony Balandran
W when Kansas voters enter the voting booths Nov. 4, they will have a chance to
decide whether several changes should be made in the Kansas Constitution.
The general election ballot includes a proposed constitutional amendment allowing the Kansas Legislature to establish a state-owned and operated lottery.
Voter approval of the amendment does not guarantee a state lottery. But the Rev. Richard Taylor, an opponent of the lottery and president of the lobbying group Kansans For Life at Its Best!, said he thought Kansas would get a state lottery if the amendment was approved.
"The issue is not economic development. The issue is state-promoted, state-operated gambling," Taylor said. "The motive for gambling and the motive for shoplifting are the same — you get something without earning it."
However, State Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, said he thought that the lottery was not only an economic issue but one that needed to be decided by the people of the state. Steineger along with State Sen. Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, were the main sponsors of the amendment.
"It is an important issue, one that might be entered in the Kansas Constitution, and by law the person have a right to vote on it." he said.
"The state needs the additional revenue this will create," Steineger said.
If passed, the lottery would raise between $30 million and $40 million for the state after expenses, he said.
Steinerge said that if the amendment was approved, the details of the lottery — how it would be operated and how it would be promoted — would be decided in the 1987 legislative session. He said a lottery would
begin generating money by June 1. 1987.
But Taylor, whose organization is lobbying for fewer liquor and no gambling establishments in the state, said the lottery would have a negative economic effect on the state.
"For each dollar the state receives in revenue through the lotteries," Taylor said, "the billing companies and operators would receive $1.22."
"Based on this, if Kansas received $30 million in lottery收入 an additional $37 million would go to lottery promoters."
He said that instead of a lottery, legislators could raise the sales tax one-sixth cent, producing the same amount of revenue, "and the public would have the other $7 million in its packets."
But Steineger said, "I think (Taylor) is missing the point." "If the people vote for (the lottery), it could possibly blunt the talk of needing another tax increase at this time.
"It would be a new source of revenue."
Taylor said he was concerned that the lower-income citizens of the state would be the biggest losers of the lottery.
"You never see a millionaire win the lottery because they don't buy the tickets," he said. "The poor are swindled out of their money.
Steiniger also said a lottery would keep many Kansas dollars out of neighboring states' lotteries.
"The press tells about the one person winning big, but they fail to report on the three million who lost."
But Taylor said that was not a reason to support the lottery.
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"Kansans will always buy Missouri tickets because Missouri has four times the population than Kansas," he said. "A bigger population means bigger jackpots. It won't keep anything home."
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