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University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1982
Fan smokes a Tower out
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
A fan motor overheated on the sixth floor of Jayhawker Towers apartment building D yesterday morning, spewing smoke into the halways and forcing residents to partially evacuate the building.
No one was injured. KU police said that 50 people were evacuated from the building.
Joe Wilson, KU director of housing,
estimated the damage at $100.
The Lawrence Fire Department responded to the call at 7:58 a.m. A fire department spokesman said three trucks were sent to the scene.
Tom Pratt, manager of the apartments, said he arrived on the sixth floor to find the hallways partially filled with smoke and the smell of burning electrical components hanging thick in the air.
WHILE POLICE and firemen began knocking on doors to arouse residents, Pratt and Lawrence Fire Chief James McSwain identified the source of the smoke as a sixth floor ventilation room. A fan behind the vent in a boiler room was overheating and was immediately shut down, Pratt said.
He said that although no flames were visible from the motor and the incident was minor the event was still disconcerting.
"I'm still getting my wits together. These things scare the hell out of me."
Micheal Mims, Chicago junior and KU football player, said he first heard knocking on his door at 8 a.m. and thought someone had come to awaken him and his roommates, also football players, for two-a-day practice ses-
"There was some guy running around with a fire extinguisher. I knocked on a few doors and pushed in, but he didn't even off about three minutes later." Mirs said.
Another resident of the sixth floor, Kirstin Vieg, Fairway sophomore, said she was in the shower when a friend knocked on the door and yelled for Vieg and her roommates to leave the building.
"It was real smoky. We kind of panicked but were laughing too. The alarm goes off all the time around here for no reason," Vieg said.
Fratt said the wire windings of the fan motor burned up for no apparent reason. He said the motor was replaced soon after the incident.
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By BRUCE SCHREINER
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While many foes of pari-mutual betting consider it a dead issue, one state senator thinks proponents have gained confidence that they will finally be embattled measure.
State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, considers pari-mudi betting a legitimate revenue source that could help higher education and other programs dependent on the state's drained general fund.
Reilly said opponents could be caught off guard next spring.
But one skeptical legislator was State Rep, David Miller, R-Eudora.
"In the current state of our economy, any money raised from pari-mutuel betting would be insignificant, because in the context of a $3 billion budget, $13 million doesn't matter much," Miller said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, chief lobbyist for Kansans For Life At Its Rest also chair the significant amount of money from the ractecks.
PARI-MUTEL betting, which is prohibited by the Kansas Constitution, has been an issue repeatedly vetoed by the Legislature, only to resurface during the next legislative session.
For pari-mutuel betting to be legalized, both legislative chambers must approve the plan, and the president must put the issue on the next election's ballot. Then voters must
Last spring, the issue passed the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, but it died on the Senate floor when it garnered only 22 votes, five short of the needed two-thirds majority.
endorse the proposed constitutional alteration.
Reilly, chairman of the Federal and State Affairs Committee, said the part-mutual question would be resurrected because of public pressure
"People aren't going to allow themselves to be taxed out of existence." Reilly said. "It is foolish not to tap a source. Just because a few people don't want this, it is going to restrict benefits for all."
Reilly estimated that pari-mutuel betting would generate about $30 million in direct revenue once the ranch industry was firmly entrenched in Kansas.
re added that the racing industry could indirectly raise another $20 to $30 million, because tourists would conclude to gasoline and local hotel-motel taxes.
Although Reilly predicted that revenue from pair-mutual betting would be distributed to several state-funded programs, he said higher education would be a leading contender for the tax dollars.
"EDUCATION WOULD be high on the list. It has had some slippage but it is still No. 1, so higher education would be a beneficial," he said.
But Taylar said racetrack operators, horse owners and lobbyists, not educators and students, would benefit from pari-mutuel betting.
"What you're doing is to educate people to gamble so you can have more education," Taylor said. "But the gambling would put $30 million into the fund that would track firms, lobbyists, public relations firms and advertising accounts."
Taylor also accused pari-mutual propositions of estimating of estimates that would be followed.
"And any intelligent person knows you won't have more education funding from betting."
He said that conservative estimates from some sources of $13.7 million in revenue from five ractecks were high, when considering that Nebraska's highly successful ractetack industry generates about $9 million annually.
While the effect of part-mutuel's revenue to the state would be minuscule, Taylor said, the business community would be a big loser.
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"It is not a panacea for a quick fix in the budget, but down the road it could become very important," said Peter Squibb of the American Quarter Horse Racing Association.
McGill added that passage of parimutuel betting would create 8,000 jobs and absorb much of the grain and hay produced by Kansas farmers.
"EVERY INTELLIGENT business leader is opposed to it because money lost to gambling could be used on main street," he said. "Retail sales drop, bad debts skyrocket, worker productivity drops and absenteeism goes up."
Proponents admit proceeds from pari-mutuel betting would not be a total solution to the state's financial problem. The cost of such a reliable and fruitful revenue source.
One salvo constantly fired at par-mutuel betting has been the possible appearance of organized crime if betting on horse races was legalized. McGill termed such statements as misconceptions.
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But Charlton said pari-mutuel betting was no alternative to the severance tax, a proposed tax on oil and natural gas that would take in about $100 million annually.
If the Legislature is serious about increasing state coffers, Miller said, sales and income taxes, and not sinning on his betting, would have to be restructured.
Douglas County legislators were skeptical of the possibility of parimutuel revenues bolstering higher education's coffers. But one of them supported the campaign to let voters decide on its fate.
"The STATE would own and regulate the tracks, so what would be their (organized crime)'s incentive to come in?" McGill said. "The police chief in the racing center) has said there was no organized crime element there."
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Lawrence. "It (the ban on betting) is not the type of thing that belongs in the constitution.
"The constitution should set up a form of government and guarantee"
    "the exercise of power."
"I believe people should be given the right (to vote on the measure)," said State Rev. Betty Jo Charlton, Dit it passed the Legislature next spring, he said, it would not be on the ballot until probably 1984. Then enabling legislation would have to be passed, entrepreneurs would have to construct racetracks and a bureaucratic system would have to set up regulations.
"We can't wait three to five years for pari-mutuel betting to bring in funds," said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence.
Another Lawrence legislator discounted the proposal because of the time lapse before the state would receive revenue from the betting.
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