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Wednesday, August 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
State/Local
Legislators ponder highway plan Forming alternative to Hayden's proposal tough for committee
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The enrollment increase of the 1980s in Kansas' public and private colleges is expected to peak during the 1989-90 school year, then begin receding in the next decade, the Legislative Educational Planning Committee was told yesterday.
The Legislative Research Department, which makes enrollment projections, said actual enrollment in the six Regents universities, Kansas Institute in Salina, Washburn University, medical and veterinary medicine schools, community colleges and private colleges was 139,856 during the 1986-87 school year.
The researchers' projections, which use census data to estimate how many college-age people there will be in Kansas in a given year, showed the state can expect to have
l. bout 143,100 college students in 1989-90.
The total will build to that peak from estimates of 141,160 this year and 141,720 in 1988-89.
After the peak year, the projections show the college enrollment declining to 141,800 in 1990-91 and to 139,300 in 1991-92.
Julian Eifrid, a research department staff member who works with the educational planning committee, said more accurate projections are expected next year, when newer census data should be available.
He said this year's projections for the committee are based on somewhat dated census figures.
Actual Kansas college enrollment totals for all schools prior to this past year included 137,286 in 1982-83, 138,491 in 1983-84, 137,157 in 1984-85 and 137,548 in 1983-86.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Members of the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee acknowledge that they face a tough and frustrating task today developing an alternative to Gov. Mike Hayden's comprehensive highway plan.
"We're going to work as late as it takes," said the committee's chairman, State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, yesterday. "If it takes until midnight, we'll take it."
After meeting two days last week, the committee was unable to come up with a plan of its own, making the meeting that will begin at 10 a.m. today necessary. Members say they are split over how large the program should be and predict the meeting could last into the evening hours.
Hayden has called a special session of the Legislature, which begins Monday, to have lawmakers consider his comprehensive highway plan calling for $1.71 billion in new construction over the next nine years.
Under Hayden's plan, the state would build 1,319 miles of roads, mostly along existing highway corridors. The state Department of Transportation
would spend $5.58 billion over the life of the program, for the construction, increased road maintenance, major modifications of existing roads and normal, daily operations.
The state's gasoline and diesel fuel taxes also would increase by 5 cents a gallon and its vehicle registration fees by 50 percent and 100 percent, for trucks and passenger cars respectively. The state also would issue almost $1.3 billion in bonds, and the motor fuels taxes and vehicle registration fees would be indexed, or adjusted annually for inflation.
The committee also has a plan before it proposed by State Senate President Robert V. Talkington, R-Iola, with a $1.1 billion price tag calling for between $600 and $800 million in new highway construction.
Under Talkington's plan, motor fuels taxes would increase by 6 cents, of which a penny would go to cities and counties. Vehicle registration fees would increase by between 35 and 100 percent, and the state would issue $100 million or less in bonds. The fees and taxes would not be indexed.
In addition, the House Transportation Committee endorsed a plan Friday that would increase the state's motor fuels taxes by 3 cents, increase truck registration fees by 25 percent and passenger vehicle fees by $32. The increases would raise about $550 million for improved maintenance and KDOT operations.
Voters also would decide in the August 1988 primary election whether to approve a proposed constitutional amendment that would increase the state's sales tax one-half percent. The increase would raise $864 million over $1½ years for new construction.
Morris said the Senate committee's members may sift through several proposals offered last week, many of which called for some form of an increase in the state's 4 percent sales tax. Morris also said he had a plan but would unveil it only at the committee's meeting. Morris is making no predictions about what direction the committee will take.
"I think we'll be looking at all the options to come up with the funding," Morris said. "It's really useless to speculate at this point."
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Lorna Anderson Eldridge was the first one to ask about getting a new life insurance policy for Martin K. Anderson, but it was her late husband who actually bought the policy and owned it, the agent who sold the policy testified yesterday.
Chris Kimble of Emporia said Lorna Eldridge, who has remarried, signed none of the documents required to purchase the $270,000 policy in the spring of 1983, some six months before Anderson was killed.
Kimble was the first witness at a trial to determine validity of the policy and whether the company that issued it, New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., must pay the proceeds from that policy to the Anderson's four children.
four girls ranging from 6 to 13.
New England Mutual says the policy was obtained by fraud and should be invalidated. It alleges deceit was involved because Lorna Eldridge intended to kill Anderson or have him killed to collect the money.
Lorna Eldridge claimed the money herself immediately after Anderson's death, but last fall she renounced her claim and said the money should go to the children —
Kimble testified Lorna Eldridge came to him in April 1983 — three months after a previous $300,000 policy on Anderson's life lapsed because of failure to make premium payments — and said Anderson needed his insurance reinstated because she feared he was considering committing suicide.
Kimble said he gave her an application form. Several days later, he testified. Anderson discussed the insurance with him at a meeting of a civic club of which both were members. After that, Anderson applied for a new policy, which was issued about a month later after he took two physical examinations.
Kimble said Lorna Eldridge did not sign for anything in connection with the issuance of the policy.
He also testified that all the papers needed to issue the policy were in proper order and that all payments were made on the policy until Anderson was killed $5\frac{1}{2}$ months later, on Nov. 4, 1983.
Nov. 4, 1986
Anderson also paid $30 for an additional $100,000 for one month's coverage when he went on Army Reserve summer duty in 1983. Kimble said, although that was a
temporary arrangement, and he later tore up the check.
Marty Anderson believed in life insurance, he was aware his four children wouldn't have the level of support if he wasn't around.
Kimble said he only had a few contacts with Armstrong. He spoke of his policy and his death.
Another witness yesterday, Daniel R. Carter, 39, of Emporia testified about his love affair with Lorna Eldridge during the summer of 1982, and his involvement in an effort initiated the next year by Lorna Eldridge to hire someone to kill her husband.
- Edward Hund
Wichita attorney
regarding soliciting a person to kill Anderson came three months or more after the $270,000 insurance policy was issued.
Under questioning by Edward Hund of Wichita, the attorney for the Anderson family, Carter said that his dealings with Lora Eldridge
In his opening statement yesterday, Hund said Martin Anderson bought financial security for his dependents, and whether his wife plotted his murder to try to collect on that policy is irrelevant to the insurance company's duty to pay on the policy.
"Marty Anderson believed in life insurance, he was aware his four children wouldn't have the level of support if he wasn't around, and despite any secret plan or design on his life he obtained this replacement policy," Hund said.
Terrance Crebs of St. Louis, the attorney for New England Mutual, argued Lorna Eldridge, who is in prison for plotting the murder of her first husband and is under a murder charge for his death, was instrumental in obtaining the policy on Anderson's life and her intent to kill him or have him killed constituted fraud, which invalidates the policy.
Landing gear fails on Hayden's plane
The Associated Press
WINFIELD, Kan. — The state plane carrying Gov. Mike Hayden was diverted to Wichita yesterday morning because of a landing gear problem. It landed without incident at the Executive Beechcraft Airport.
at the ELK office. Hayden and his party went on by car to Winfield, the first stop of the day in another round of barnstorming on behalf of the governor's multibillion dollar highway program.
the governor, whose highwa,
proposal will be considered by state
lawmakers in a special session next
week, continued by car to Arkansas
City and Sedan. His press secretary,
Kathy Peterson, said the landing
gear problem had been repaired
and that the plane was scheduled to pick up Hayden at Independence for a flight to Iola, where an evening
appearance was to conclude the day.
The plane, a Kingair Beech 300, left Topeka about 18:5 a.m. for Winfield, carrying a crew of two, Hayden and his aide Sue Peterson, and two lawmakers, State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Leneca, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka,
chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee.
Because of the mechanical problem, the twin-engine turbo-prop plane passed up its scheduled landing at Strother Field in Winfield.
"The circuit breaker on the landing gear popped," said Lt. Jack Garrison of the Kansas Highway Patrol, the governor's chief pilot. "We had to do a manual extension to get it down. Everything else was normal, without incident."
Melvin Current, operator of the Winfield airport, said the pilot called in for an advisory on airport conditions.
"Then he said they were going to make a go-around, that they had a problem." Current said. "I called back and asked if there was anything I could do and they said no."
He said the pilot then reported that the gear wouldn't come down and that he was heading for Wichita.
"My son went out and saw the plane, and the gear was not down." Current said.
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