University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987
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Security checks slow lottery, pari-mutuel
By BRIAN BARESCH
Preparations for the Kansas lottery and pari-mutuel racing are making progress, although both have been slowed by exhaustive security checks on gaming employees.
Staff writer
Gov. Mike Hayden named five members to the Kansas Racing Commission on Aug. 11.racing probably won't start before the end of the year, although some greyhound racing officials say a track may be in operation before then.
Officials will kick off the lottery with a statewide hoopla in September or October, when instant-winner cards will be available. A lotto game in which players try to match random numbers drawn each week will begin about nine months after the instant-win game.
Greyhound racers anticipate large tracks near Kansas City and Wichita and several smaller ones in southeast Kansas.
State lottery officials are also negotiating details of a multi-state lottery with
A proposal for a dog track in Lenexa at Kansas Highway 7 and 83rd Street is under review in Johnson County. An earlier proposal for a tractor at 10th Street was used down because it be too close to an elementary school.
The thoroughbred season ends in September, too soon to get a track in operation in Kansas this year. Greyhound racing is sometimes done at indoor year-round tracks.
Officials say the time spent investigating the backgrounds of potential gambling employees, to keep the games squeaky-clean, has slowed game preparations.
In other state news this summer:
■ Hayden called the legislature into a special session starting Aug. 31 to force the task force's $3.2 billion highway plan.
The task force proposed that $1.58 billion be spent on 1,319 miles of new two, and four-lane roads, mostly in the southern and western parts of the state. Money would come from gasoline taxes, increased car and truck registration fees and $1.1 billion in revenue bonds.
The plan includes $20 million for the proposed south Lawrence bypass. Also in the plan are $638 million for maintenance and $1 billion in improvements.
The Legislature has not held a special session since the 1960s, when two such sessions were called for
congressional redistricting.
The special session is important for Hayden politically, since a failure to get the roads bill passed could make Hayden appear ineffectual as state leader. Most Democratic lawmakers have objected to the special session and oppose the highway plan.
Hayden has said that withdrawing from the compact would mean Kansas would definitely have a waste site, while hanging in would keep open the possibility that the site would go elsewhere. A meeting of the five state governors is planned in the fall.
- Hayden and many lawmakers seem to have accepted the state's role in the five-state compact formed to dispose of low-level radioactive waste. The compact had met resistance when it appeared that Kansas was the most likely state to be the host of the proposed waste site.
In addition, some state officials are examining a California proposal to accept waste from any state wishing to send it there. No official action on this option has been taken yet.
most opposition to the compact has come from northwest and north-central Kansas, where most of the proposed sites are concentrated. However, Anderson County officials have said they would like to reap the dump's economic benefits.
The Kansas Coalition on Nuclear Waste is still opposing the state's membership in the compact.
Hayden has suggested that a waste site be located in Coffey County, site of the Wolf Creek nuclear reactor, which will generate at least 90 percent of the state's low-level waste. Hayden recommends the county both because of the plant's location there and because of favorable geological structures.
- President Reagan has turned down an offer to give the Landon Lecture on former governor Alf Landon's 100th birthday Sept. 9 at Kansas State University but will visit Landon at his Topeka home three days earlier.
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