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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, March 27, 1986
GOP governor contest wide open
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Four months from primary election day, most Kansas Republicans still seem to be hoping a front-running gubernatorial candidate will emerge in their party.
Wichita business executive Larry Jones declared his candidacy in December and House Speaker Mike Hayden made his announcement in January. Two lesser-known contenders also have entered the race — Barbana Pomeroy of Whitewater and Richard Peckham of Andover.
While Jones and Hayden already have spent three months on the campaign trail, talk among Republicans is that neither has seen his candidacy take off enough to be considered as clear a front-runner as Attorney General Robert Stephan was when he
abandoned his quest for the GOP nomination in November,
Stephan, who bowed out in the face of continuing adverse publicity surrounding the secret settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by a former woman employee in his office, was the undisputed front-runner until a year ago.
Lack of an obvious front-runner has encouraged other potential contenders to consider joining the race within the next month to six weeks.
The most likely fifth candidate for the GOP nomination is Secretary of State Jack Brier, who will declare his candidacy on April 8 during a tour of six cities in Kansas, according to those close to his campaign.
The secretary of state said many Republicans were not sold on Jones,
Hayden or anybody else as the party's standard-bearer against Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the only declared candidate for Democratic nomination.
"Kansas Republicans are no closer today toward knowing who their nominees will be for governor than they were the first of January," Brier said. "Couple that with the encouragement I have received from all over the state, and the race is as wide open as the day after Bob Stephan withdrew."
Senate President Robert V. Talkington of Iola and Sen. Fred Kerr of Pratt, the other two prominent Republicans still considering the race, agreed that no one has emerged to eliminate the GOP gubernatorial race.
"I think most Republicans are still
searching for the right candidate," said Kerr. "I'm encouraged by the number of folks who feel I could add some dimensions to the campaign that are needed."
Hayden is from far northwest Kansas and is counting on winning big in western Kansas to have a chance.
Jones is from Wichita and has already enlisted the support of Stephan and former state GOP Chairman Jack Ranson, both of Wichita. Although Pomeroy and Peckham are from bedroom communities of Wichita, one would have to concede most of the city's vote to Jones.
Kerr needs votes in both western Kansas and the Wichita-Hutehinson area to have a chance. Both Jones and Hayden erode his support in those regions.
Two sentenced for casino skimming
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Reputed organized crime figures Carl DeLuna and Milton Rockman yesterday were sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $120,000 each for their roles in a casino skimming conspiracy.
U. S. District Judge Joseph E
Stevens Jr. sentenced DeLuna to two years in prison and fined him $10,000 on each of eight counts. DeLuna also was ordered to pay the State of Nevada's Gaming Control Board $30,750 in restitution and pay $11,807 in court costs.
Tropicana casino skimming case.
DeLuna, 58, pleaded guilty to the skimming conspiracy involving casinos owned by Argent Corporation halfway through the trial, which began Sept. 23.
The prison term is to run concurrently with the 30-year prison sentence DeLuna is serving for a 1983
Federal prosecutors have described DeLuna as the record-keeper in the Argent Corp. skimming conspiracy. Much of the prosecution's
evidence presented during the trial involved coded notes confiscated from DeLuna's residence.
Rockman, 73, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $10,000 for each of the eight counts, plus $30,750.50 in restitution to the State of Nevada's Gaming Control Board and $26,694.48 in court costs.
Amendment toughens bill on death penalty
TOPEKA - The Kansas House yesterday expanded a death-penalty bill to include all premeditated first-degree murders and recommended passage of the bill on a voice vote.
After an hour of floor debate, the House amended the bill, 53-47, so it would apply the death penalty to all people who commit premeditated first-degree murder.
United Press International
Tentative approval of the entire bill was given on a voice vote, with no call for a specific vote count. A final roll-call vote is scheduled for today.
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, proposed the amendment that expanded the bill from its original provisions, which would have reinstated the death penalty only for people who kill law enforcement or corrections officers.
$650 in one semester and graduate students cannot receive more than $1,200.
Leans made available by the Endowment Association are provided by grants from alumni and friends of the University.
Hayden told House members not to be swayed by Gov. John Carlin's pledge to veto any death-penalty bill that crossed his desk. The Legislature was unable to override Carlin death penalty vetoes in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1985.
He said he sent a letter last week to students who have outstanding loans from the Endowment Association informing them that more money was available.
Although the House was five votes short of overriding Carlin's veto last year, Hayden said the House might be able to muster the necessary two-thirds majority to reject the governor's veto this year.
The bill, sponsored by Reps. Martha Jenkins and Clyde Graeber, both R-Leavenworth, would provide for death by injection. Jenkins, who carried the bill in floor debate, said the death penalty was the only effective deterrent to murder.
Barbara Basel, graduate assistant in the student financial aid program, said students could receive the additional $300 or $600 during their original loan period.
Graeber said that to allege that the death penalty is not a deterrent to murder is in essence saying that people are not afraid of dying.
Each student borrows money for a different length of time, she said, but must pay the loan back by a certain date.
Jenkins, whose home county contains three prisons, told the Legislature she did not place a higher value on the lives of correctional and law enforcement officers than on those of other people. However, she said they were constantly in danger of losing their lives and deserved whatever protection could be afforded to them.
Hayden agreed with Jenkins' remarks but said the death penalty should be used to protect all Kansans.
Jenkins argued that expanding the measure would dash all hopes of getting any death penalty passed.
Basel said an increasing number of students had been coming in to take advantage of the loan increase because of Shunk's letter.
"If you don't have the capital," Cribbbs said, "you get the punishment."
"四 months after graduation, the loan must be paid back in full," she said.
Rep. Theo Cribs, D-Wichita, objected to the bill, saying capital punishment largely would be used on the poor and minorities.
"We have to base the amount of loans we issue on the amount of funds we have." he said.
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By Leslie Hirschbach
However, undergraduate students cannot receive more than
KUEA raises limit of available loans
William Shunk, Endowment Association loan officer, said yesterday that since December, the limit on the amount of money students could receive in one loan period was raised.
Students who receive loans from the Kansas University Endowment Association may want to take advantage of a greater availability of loan funds this year.
With the increase, undergraduates can receive up to $950 and graduate students $1800 in one loan period. Those amounts thus are the maximum students can owe at any time.
Shunk said undergraduates could receive up to $300 more in Endowment Association loans and graduate students could receive as much as $600 more.
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