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Monday, June 4, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
Laid back
Staff photo by KEVIN KING
White waiting for their ride home, Ted English, left, and Kurt Knoblueb, both from Topeka, time to relax and joke
around after participating in the American Legion Boys State here last week.
Topeka, take note. Almost 900 would-be politicians from across the state passed mock knits last week that legalized liquor by the drink, subsidized the cost of farm machinery and would prevent the disposal of nuclear waste in Kansas.
The legislation was drafted by high school boys who attended the week-long Boys State program at the University of Kansas. Boys State simulates the political activities of Kansas' city, county and state governments.
Boys State simulates government
The program has been sponsored for high school seniors annually since 1957 by the Board of Trustees.
Judy Walters, executive secretary of the American Legion Boys State of Kansas, said the participants were assigned randomly to one of two political parties. Party members then drew up platforms, campaigned for offices and staged elections.
AL MADRID of Manhattan was elected governor of Boys State.
governor of boston
Madrid said that, after the "politicians"
their mock government because the boys were judged and gave awards on their play.
Todd Calkin of Huguenot said, "You get more back from Boss State than you get in Florida."
Conklin was elected chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.
Almost all of the Students participating in Boys State had a head start on being leaders before they came to Lawrence. Lowell Biss of Junction City said the participants usually were involved in school government, forensics and debate.
"Governor" Madrid said he signed the bills that subsidized the cost of farm machinery, prevented disposal of nuclear waste in Kansas, provided a half-cent sales tax to be used to develop alternate forms of energy, and legalized liquor by the drink.
were elected, they drafted laws in accordance with the Kansas constitution.
Party members discussed and debated issues such as farmers' parity, capital punishment and "somewhere along the line—marijuana," he said.
MADRID SAID THAT the bills he signed was “to tooken for recommendation.”
"A lot of them will go into politics," Bliss said, "or at least be more aware of how they do it."
Madrid said the would-be politicians were careful to follow actual state procedures in
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