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Friday, October 29,1976
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN Voters' guide to candidates
County Commission
2nd District/Elder, Neis
1. What are the three top problems facing Douglas County today? How do you plan to address them?
1) I see the increased needs of senior
administrators in major areas of concern in
Douglas County.
2) Are any of these problems unique to Douglas County?
If the one mill levy is approved, the commissioners will have to determine how this can be best used to benefit the most people.
ROBERT NEIS (R)—Route 1, Eudora.
Director of Kaw Vail State Bank.
The opening of Clinton reservoir will present the country with problems in the areas of law enforcement and area planning.
The county, at present, uses the City of Lawrence landfill. It is imperative for the county to establish an additional landfill in a central location in the near future.
2) Only the problems connected with Clinton are unique to Douglas County. I believe we can benefit here from the ex-convict experience, because we learned to cope with the problem of increased use of county facilities and services with no increase in revenue.
ROBERT ELDER (D)—26% Arkansas.
Co-owner of Western Home Building.
1) Federal controls through federal spending. We should keep the tax money that we collect at home and eliminate the taxes that will eliminate the federal controls.
1b) The comprehensive plan of Douglas County. This is a disgrace of federal control in red tape. I believe the people who own the land and pay the taxes shouldn't be conceived as government or an appointed few on a planning commission. I am against such a plan.
1c) Overstaffed departments. Demand that all department heads maintain the same budget for the next five years and trim all the "fat" from the administrative departments. This should reduce the county budget and, in turn, red tape.
2) No. Nearly all the counties in the United States are faced with these problems. I feel that with the elimination of these problems we can operate the county more efficiently.
3rd District/Bradley. Stoneback
1. What are the three top problems facing Douglas County today? How do you plan to address them?
2) Are any of these problems unique to Douglas County?
I. J. STONEBACK (D)—Route 4. Incumbent, first elected 1972.
1) We have taken care of most of our problems the last four years while I have been in office. For example, the new law requires that 54 new bridges under construction, et al.
Unemployment is a problem. We have many qualified applications for each job opening. This is probably unique because of the University. Lawrence needs more industry or office buildings, especially for young women.
2) Dusty roads are a problem in rural areas, but it takes a lot of money to solve.
BEVERLY BRADLEY (R)-Route 2.
would be served on Board,
Dountney County Cross.
Cross board.
1) The three top areas of concern for
County Clint, Clinton Reservoir,
county county are.
I would like to see limited orderly growth for the Clinton area with some bike trails in it.
There are some roads in Douglas County that are desperately in need of resurfacing. I am in favor of doing away with the intangible tax and finding some favorable mux to replace it. The burden should not be placed on taxpayers. My program in which the county is involved individually and weight it carefully to make each tax dollar get a dollar value.
2) Clinton Lake is unique to Douglas County because it is so close to the urban area.
County Treasurer
1) what are the major problems facing
them as we vote? What would you do
about them?
BETTY LESLIE (R)-Lecompton.
Deputy County Treasurer.
2) Why do you think you are more qualified for this job than your opponent?
1. I do not see any problems facing me as the winner of the election. I am confident, with my direct experience in the office and my knowledge of the statute requirements, legislative actions, vehicle department amendments and county endorsed policy changes. If the land use bill is passed by the voters, there may be mechanics to be worked, if the treasurer gets involved. This would be "proposal and "if" stage at the present time.
2) I am a graduate of Lecompte High School, attended Lawrence Business College and have served in every phase of the office, being the present driver for one and one-half years, bookkeeper 14 years, as well as vehicle supervisor, custar, tax
clerk and auto clerk. First-hand experience has prepared me to recognize and understand the required duties and service duties. The county treasurer is responsible for:
All money brought into and paid out by the county.
Investment of county funds.
Properly pledged security for county funds.
Sale of license tags and titles on all vehicles registered in Douglas County.
RUTH P. P. VERYNCK (D) —113- Ver-
St. F. Count in County Assessor's
office
1) One of the major problems is running the office more efficiently. I would want to run it this way to improve relations with the public that we serve.
2) I have a great deal of energy to put to work in making the office run more smoothly and efficiently. In addition to working in the Assessors office, I have had time to attend conferences at Real Estate Broker license and have been a leader in community organizations.
State Senate. 2nd District/Berman. Booth
2) What should Kansas do to fill its future energy needs? Are nuclear power plants a solution?
1. What do you see as the major issues facing the winner of this election? How did your party win?
I ramsaw now has a sizable but dwindling budget surplus. When this surplus is gone, should the state raise taxes to maintain its revenue? The program programs? If cuts pre to be made, where?
The consumers of Kansas and the industries of Kansas which provide jobs, and thus much of the source of revenue to the state, are the most important part of energy at the lowest possible cost.
ARDEN BOOTH (R)—2518 Alabama.
Incumbent, first elected 1970.
1) The major issues are: adequate funding for education; product liability; public employee unions; adult care homes; local government revenue, needs and sources; alternate sources of energy; health care services; due process requirements for defendants found not guilty by reason of insanity and hearing procedures prior to release of such defendants; implementation and direction of penal reform; housing; and most of all, establishing priorities for funding of services, without tax increases.
The results of the election will have a good deal to do with this list.
While it is a state issue, the feasibility of nuclear power plants is not an issue facing
2) Kansas should push exploration and research in respect to every potential energy source, not just the obvious. It may be our most practical available source of energy, the process of discovery in the brain of some Kansas University undergraduate.
BOOTH
BERMAN
3) Kansas really doesn't have a surplus. A balance of some 60 to 70 million is a prudent cushion against which to do business. Projected spending, already legislated, will eat up the difference between that cushion and our balance in three years.
the legislature. The Kansas Legislature has not voted, nor will it be called upon to vote, on whether a nuclear plant will be built in our state.
Anticipated state revenue is projected to increase 7/12 per cent per year. Given these facts, Kansas can fiscally continue to fund present services in a progressive way.
Should state revenue fail to keep the 7½ per cent pace, that is, level off, or decrease, program funding will suffer—because fixed costs can be expected to continue to increase.
The most obvious (not necessarily the best) places to cut will be welfare and education, since they take such a massive share of the budget.
ARNOLD BERMAN (D)—Coventry Manor, Lawyer.
1. Our legislature this coming session must face up to the absolute necessity of increasing revenue by a year the legislature appropriated $50 million more than our state revenues. At this rate the state surplus will quickly increase and higher taxes can be anticipated.
Tax reform is also a critical item. I believe we should immediately eliminate the sales tax on prescription drugs and work towards the praslated elimination of the sales tax on food items. We should raise individual income tax exemptions from $600 above all, we should work to close the door on powerful special interest tax loopholes.
Other critical issues include adequate funding for higher education, which I wholeheartedly support, and capital investment to ensure on both ethical and practical grounds.
2) Short term future energy needs should be met by coal-fired generating plants.
Conservation of energy and the use of alternative energy sources should be encouraged by offering tax incentives. I would propose tax incentives for improving home insulation and would extend the incentives needed to those installing solar power systems.
do not currently regard nuclear power as a safe and practical energy source. Existing plants have been plagued with technical difficulties and no long term solution has been found for the safe management of radioactive wastes. The people of Kansas, who must live with these hazards, are often forced to them. At the least we should insist that state legislative approval be required for the stine nuclear power plants in Kansas.
3) Necessary programs can be maintained without raising taxes. It will require, however, considerably greater legislative authority over the budget and permit pendencies than we have seen during the past several years. We can start by demanding the use of zero base budgeting (making government agencies justify every increase in federal spending, the increases over the past year's budgets). We can start with the passage of a Kansas "sunset law," that would periodically require a government agency to justify its continued existence. Above all, we can start with the budget, which requires you with a deliberate and thoughtful approach to the solution of our pressing needs.
State House. 44th District/Glover, Hambleton, Hart
1) What do you see as the major issues facing the winner of this election? How would you cope with them?
2) What should Kansas do to fill its future energy
    3) nuclear power plants a safe and practical
    4) way?
3) Kansas now has a sizable but dwindling budget surplus. When this surplus is gone, should the state raise taxes to maintain its programs or cut some programs? If cuts are to be made, where?
MICHAEL G. GLOVER (D) - 1719 W. 20th St. Terrace.
Incumbent, first elected (1972).
1) Obviously, funding of higher education, adequate civil service compensation and continued support for the building program in progress on campus are major issues that must be addressed by the winner of this election.
Decriminalization of nonvictim crimes such as possession of marjuana, sexual privacy, liquor-by-the-drink, and paramutual gambling are all issues designed to get the government out of the home and raise money for education, civil service salaries and tax reform such as exemption of food and prescription drugs from the sales
2) Kansas should not allow the building of nuclear power plants but should shift to support research in solar and wind energy. The storage of nuclear waste has not been determined completely safe for Kansas, and in fact such storage was blocked by Governor Docking when he was in office.
help keep as much of the surplus as possible without increasing taxes or outlaying vital purposeful services.
Just last year the legislature passed tax incentives for solar and wind energy to encourage research and construction, and I was a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to press for legislative support for these two types of programs.
NANCY S. HAMBLETON (R)—2009 Oxford Road.
Former mavor.
Finally, I think we should remember that this country still has a 600-year supply of coal on reserve and to build nuclear power plants that depend on uranium from Russia. We can also build coal to energy sufficiency. Depending on coal does!
1) If use value assessment tests, the legislature will have to implement it wisely to carry out the purpose of preserving agricultural land and maintaining adequate tax revenues. We are probably close to the time*for an
3) The state budget surplus is currently estimated at $130 million. What this state needs is a "sunset law" to automatically abolish state agencies at a certain time (such as public health agencies, police departments, have approached, or achieved their original purpose).
This would also incorporate the idea of "zero based budgeting" which makes an agency justify not just an increased appropriation, but the base upon which the increased appropriation is figured. These proposals will
HART HAMBLETON GLOVER
overhaul of our tax legislation with special attention to removing its recessive features.
Housing needs of low and middle income families and preservation of existing housing needs attention. We need dependable "people" programs which we monitor to check their effectiveness and cost.
2) We need a good strategy for conservation that places responsibility on individuals, industry, business and government to develop an adaptive development of existing state resources and alternative energy sources. We need a good inventory (part of which we have) of storage facilities, information about critical infrastructure, plan for how to supply these needs in emergencies.
Given the state of the engineering arts today and the safety record of nuclear plants in operation in the U.S. and in Europe, I believe we need nuclear plants until at least the year 2000.
Accelerated research should be stressed to find alternative sources of enervy in the meantime.
3) The surplus was created by revenues (particularly in agriculture) that exceed expenditures. This could possibly continue. If we do continue to dip into our surpluses, it should be done to improve existing programs
first with new ones added carefully as the need is documented. Inadequate budgets, however, are a false economy when they prevent our having qualified staff. The rate of inflation will determine how fast the cost of government will climb. Decisions about future taxes are made until we see the circumstances which prevail.
THOMAS H. HART (American)—2039 Nalsmith Drive.
Engineer technician.
1) Tax reduction: Everywhere I have gone in the 44th District, voters have told me "we are fed up with government at all levels." "the tax load is too high," "get the government off our backs." In order to reduce taxes, government services must be reduced or eliminated. This is what I have been talking about in this campaign.
My two opponents are as different from me on this issue
from white. All they have talked about is
programming.
My offering to serve the 44th District in the state legislature really gives the voters a choice.
2) I like natural energy—solar–wind–thermal-
tidal and any other natural source that we may or may
not be aware of at this time. I would support and
encourage research to these ends.
For current needs, I would encourage exploration for oil but give increasing importance to coal, for we know he
I have an open mind about nuclear energy. It has many problems—cool, waste, I really doubt it is a final answer.
1. Are there any other sources of renewable energy?
2. What are the pros and cons of nuclear energy?
3) With discipline and sound legislation, there is no need to spend all the surplus. I do not favor any raise in taxes, for any reason. We must cut out services. Examples: tighten welfare and social programs, reduce non-producing programs of the agriculture department, cut out the new government ethics commission—ethics cannot be legislated. Starting this agency is just like letting the camel get his nose under the tent flap; it will only keep the camel out. And so the insurance department of revenue staff can be cut, reduce insurance requirements so department of insurance staff can be cut, cut out offices so office space rentals and building costs can be reduced.
All of these reductions would allow for the reduction of the state vehicles.
State House, 45th District/Buzzi, Francis
1. What do you see as the major issues facing the winner of this election? How would you decide?
2. What should Kanas do to fill its future water supply? Plants a plants a and practical energy source?
3) Kansas now has a sizable but dwindling budget surplus. When this surplus is gone, should the state raise taxes to maintain its budget? If so, what changes? If cuts are to be made, where?
LLOYD BUZZI (R)—Route 4. Incumbent, first elected 1972.
1) I feel we must keep our ongoing programs working within the present budget. Any new programs must be studied in depth to determine whether we can implement them and still stay safe within the Kansas Constitution required by the Kansas Constitution.
There are many pertinent issues to be faced. Among them, senior citizen problems are a major issue.
1) What would be your priorities as sheriff?
1) My No. 1 priority as sheriff has always been to recognize that I am elected to serve the people of Douglas County. They are entitled to efficient and courteous treatment on a year-round basis. Our office takes great pride in its acceptance in this county in the way the citizens cooperate with us. What is his law enforcement is all about.
County Sheriff/Huskey, Johnson
2) I would honestly have to say that the Douglas County Commissioners have been very sensitive to the needs of our office, for which I am very grateful.
2) Do you think the sheerff's department is adequately funded and equipped? What?
    - yes
    - no
why do you think you are more qualified for this job than your opponent? REX D. JOHNSON (R)—Route 5. Incumbent, first elected in 1964.
For example, although Clinton Lake will not be operational for another year or two, the commission has already begun implementation of the plan our office developed for additional patrol and law enforcement service capability in the lake. We are now developing communications services with the city police department in the new Law Enforcement-Judicial Building, we now will be able to achieve greater saving of the taxpayers dollars while providing more efficient and broader services.
HUSKEY
JOHNSON
3) Law enforcement has been my life. I started as a dispatcher and worked my way up to sheriff. The experience one gains in dealing with people and treating them fairly has given me a sense of purpose and have worked hard to gain the trust and respect of all the people of Douglas County.
We have also earned the respect of the law enforcement agencies in the state. We regularly supply manpower for the major crimes unit in Topeka and cooperate with the KHI, FBI, campus police department, Lawrence police department and various other agencies. We provide enforcement offices in Baldwin and Eudora. These ties are only developed through trust over a period of years, and I am proud of the record of my deputies, many of whom may
be your neighbors. My opponent has criticized me for running on my name. My response to this is only to say, what more I have than his name and reputation?
vitrimental studies, energy, nursing homes and nepal and mental health reforms.
1) Foreset and the most necessary is the need to bring the office of sheriff above the level of politics so that it may function effectively; this has been refused to accept any campaign contribution that constitutes a conflict of interest, and will disclose all contributions to the public.
JAMES HUSKY (D)—2448 Cedurwood.
JAMIE Investigator for County Attorney's
office.
Along with this a program of preventative law enforcement will begin. Especially with juveniles, where a large portion of the population is not well educated and designed to educate and gain the cooperation of the youth of Douglas County. This hopefully will help towards gaining a better understanding of the law.
Again, we must maintain our ongoing programs, which means recognizing and
When elected, there will be no acceptance of gratuities or favoritism shown toward the electorate.
2) The sheriff's office currently has adequate funds and equipment. The problem seems to be in the application of the funds, personnel and equipment. A
FRANCIS
BUZZI
It is especially difficult to fathom why the sheriff himself and the process server need full-sized vehicles since they aren't even used for extensive patrol work. Intermediate-sized vehicles would better serve the office, both economically and in terms of safety. They are better governmental agencies to quit being frivolous with the taxpayer's funds.
slight reorganization of personnel could result in positive dividends. One area where economics is a factor is the type of patrol car utilized by the sheriff's department. It is hard to understand why a full-sized luxury vehicle can be transported a deputy about his duties.
3) Essentially because I am a professional, while the incumbent is a politician. A true professional does not rely on just experience alone as the incumbent must be able to govern with law enforcement has been valuable, I have supplemented it with substantial training from accredited law enforcement institutions and also with criminology-related studies. I will allow myself to stagnate and become entrenched in the job as the incumbent has done. At the end of my second term or possibly even my first I will actively seek out a position in the office and run to run for the office. Entrenchment of politics in law enforcement has to end.
establishing funding priorities without tax increases.
2) Kansas must continue to find methods to utilize our current energy resources as long as possible. We can and should work in partnership with industry to conserve energy areas as coal processing and ways to conserve use of other existing energy sources. I feel we are on the right path with programs such as the one to encourage better insulation of homes and businesses.
I feel we need much more research in the area of nuclear energy as a major power source even though several nuclear plants are still being built, and there are many problems such as nuclear waste disposal to deal with. We should continue to look at areas such as nuclear or wind power as a potential future technology.
CAROL FRANCIES (D) — 1916 Coun-
turial Carol Francis
Creative Communications.
3) I feel we must always consider the fact that Kansas operates on a cash basis when we speak of budget balances or surpluses because our programs must stabilize soon as it is on the decline. Even now we face the problem of main-line operations and current programs simply because of inflation.
Thus it seems to me the issue is to continue to set priorities as we are now doing. I feel education should not and will not be affected greatly. History has shown Kansans are willing to pay the price to continue educational programs.
1) The major issue in any legislative session is taxation, its collection and distribution, which should respond to the people's concerns rather than those of an individual, a political party or the Governor.
Coping? The same way I've demonstrated my ability to cope with past problems in family living, community affairs and professional accomplishments. Essentially, it's caring. Caring enough to research when I listen carefully and respond carefully.
I expect my ability, honesty, integrity and lack of special interest influences to help me vote for effective legislation for the people of Kansas.
2) I feel future energy needs could be solved with the application of creative thinking and problem solving techniques to investigate ways in which wasted wind power, water power, and various kinds of trash power (solid waste, waste farm, toilets, compost bins) can be recycled or converted to effective energy sources. Not all experts concur that nuclear power plants provide a safe plant maintenance operation. For that reason, I recommend a more cautious approach before establishment. But more important, my life-long concern and work towards reducing waste to present a problem for future generations of Kanansa—my children or yours.
3) One account indicates our state surplus at $75 million, which is gradually being chipped away through legislative mandated programs or wasteful spending.
For instance, removing the tax on food and drugs. Or it could have permitted much deadlines and follow-up ignoring fund updates studied for highway maintenance, which recommended that 50 per cent of the new tax money be sent back to local units of the state for reimbursement or provisions rather than keep 100 per cent for administration at state level discretion.
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