Church council attacks betting bill
TOPEKA (UPI)—The Kansas Council of Churches Tuesday attacked the pari-mutuel wagering bill now being considered in the House of Representatives as "socially destructive, economically unsound, and morally corruptive."
The council represents 10 Protestant denominations in Kansas, with some 480,000 members.
The Rev. J. Edward Nelson, Topeka, council president, said gambling to produce either public or charitable revenue would be detrimental to personal, family and community life.
Mr. Nelson, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Topeka,
said, "We observe that with legalized gambling, crime, welfare and underworld burdens mount. Legalized gambling spawns illegal gambling, and not infrequently, anticipated revenues fall below promotion promises."
The Rev. William F. Keucher, representing 65,000 Baptists, criticized the measure on economic grounds. The bill would legalize betting on horse and dog races.
In 1963, a total of $4 billion was bet by about 57 million persons throughout the country, he said, representing an average of $70 per person.
"We do not think the Kansas economy and the small business man in our state will be helped
A KU Women's Hall of Fame is being organized by the Associated Women Students (AWS) to recognize outstanding women graduates and faculty or staff members of the University of Kansas, said Joyce Campbell, Topeka junior and AWS Women's Recognition committee member.
AWS hall of fame honors KU women
The plans call for the selection
TOPEKA (UPI)—A caucus of Senate Republicans Tuesday opted to seek passage of Gov. Robert B. Docking's property tax lid bill, which many Senators view as unworkable.
The decision virtually assures the Governor's bill will become law. The measure was passed by the House Monday by a vote of 76-47. It is expected the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee will pass the measure out of committee for debate and final vote on the Senate floor by Monday.
Tax lid bill assured of passage
Sen. Glee Smith, R-Larned, president pro tem of the Senate, said a "substantial majority" of Senate Republicans demonstrated support for the Docking lid proposal, despite the fact that "most Senators regard it as unworkable."
The only alternative considered at the caucus, were a combined tax lid measure utilizing features of bills proposed by Sens. Robert Bennett, (R-Prairie Village), and Frank Hodge, (R-Hutchinson), and the prospect of no tax lid at all.
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of one woman to represent each of the following fields: education, journalism, religion, fine arts, social work, medicine, liberal arts and sciences, law, urban design, engineering, architecture and pharmacy. More than one woman may represent a field if the contributions of each are equal in that particular area.
The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to provide successful models for women students to follow in choosing their careers and becoming effective citizens, said Miss Campbell.
by skimming off $70 of a person's discretionary spending income."
Nominations should be sent, along with a resume of the nominee's activities to the AWS office, 220 Strong Hall. The deadline for the nominations is March 29.
Mr. Keucher attacked what he said were the "fictions that have accompanied the bill."
The Hall of Fame designates will be named on Honor Night, the annual AWS program which recognizes notable contributions made by KU women students.
No state that has legalized pari-mutuel wagering, except Nevada, receives more than 4.5 per cent for tax revenue purposes, the Topeka minister said. "It is apparent that we cannot begin to finance the demands or needs of our state from the revenues of legalized gambling," he said.
Mr. Keucher also attacked the idea that legalized betting would create a more attractive tax climate in the state that would attract new industry and business.
“This is the biggest fiction of them all,” he said. “The favorable tax climate argument has been thoroughly disproved in the state of Nevada,” where he said the number of manufacturing establishments was exactly the same in 1954 as it had been in 1904.
He also said Nevada has the highest crime rate in the nation, even though gambling provides
"Legalized pari-mutuel betting spawns the small bookmaker who canont live with the services furnished by organized gambling," he said.
the state with 19 per cent of its revenues.
Mr. Keucher also charged that legalized gambling would inevitably attract organized crime to the state.
Church, charged that the bill would encourage the state to develop economic dependence on "a practice which produces no increase in real resources, as legitimate productive enterprise does, but simply takes money from the many and redistributes it to the few."
The Rev, Jack Bremer, district director of Christian Social Concerns for the United Methodist
A public hearing on the bill will be at 3 p.m. next Tuesday by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
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