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Hayden visits Kansas prisons
LANSING, Kan. (AP) — After a tour of two institutions containing more than half the population in Kansas' overcrowded prison system, Gov. Mike Hayden said he was thinking about retaining Secretary of Corrections Richard C. Mills as a permanent member of his cabinet.
Mills, an appointee of former Gov. John Carlin, would become the second Democratic member of the Hayden cabinet if he stays on at his post. Earlier this month, Hayden announced that he was keeping Secretary of Revenue Harley Duncan, a Democrat who Carlin also appointed.
Hayden's tour of the century-old Kansas State Penitentiary and the Kansas Correctional Institution at Lansing was billed as a surprise inspection. But prison officials had advance word of the visit and had scrambled to make preparations.
The Republican governor said he was making the trip to the two
Prison officials said 2,776 prisoners were being housed in three compounds making up the KSP complex, facilities designed to hold a maximum of about 2,640. At邻伯癣 KCIL, the state's old prison for women, 247 prisoners were being held in quarters designed to hold 175.
Hayden said he was generally pleased with the outward appearance of KSP and added that staff morale seemed higher than it was when he last visited the facility five years ago as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
institutions, both on hills just west of the Missouri River, to check the progress of cellhouse renovations and other construction projects as well as to get a first-hand look at the overcrowded conditions.
three of the prison's 60-year-old housing buildings.
The surprise announcement that Mills was under consideration to become the permanent secretary of corrections in the Hayden administration came during a news briefing at the conclusion of his KCIL tour. But the governor refused to say how seriously he was looking at Mills, 53, who has held the position since August 1985.
However, the governor was less impressed with conditions at KCIL, saying he could understand why plans call for the demolition of all
“It's fair to say we're looking nationwide but that shouldn't be misconstructed to say we aren't looking at qualified Kansans as well.” Havden said.
Mills has said he has been asked to remain in command at the Department of Corrections at least through the end of July. After Hayden's remarks Monday, Mills said he probably would stay on permanently if asked to do so.
41 apply for vacant court posts
TOPEKA (AP) — Forty-one candidates have applied for three new positions and one vacant position on the Kansas Court of Appeals.
The vacancies include three new positions established by the 1986 Legislature and a fourth opening created by the retirement of Judge Sherman A. Parks, who was Kansas's first black appellate judge.
Gov. Mike Hayden will appoint a replacement for Parks and will fill the three new positions. The court was expanded to handle the increased workload and backlog of cases.
The names of the candidates now will be screened by the Supreme
Court Nominating Commission at a meeting July 8. The list will be reduced by at least half, and the remaining group will be interviewed by that panel at another meeting.
The commission will submit the names of three nominees for each vacancy to Hayden, who then will have 60 days to select the four new judges.
Among those who either submitted their own names or had them offered by someone else were State Sen. Robert G. Frey, R-Liberal, Joan M. Hamilton of the parole board, and David K. Fromme, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Alex M. Fromme.
Frey, 48, is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was elected to the upper chamber in 1984. He spent ten years in the House of Representatives and served as majority leader before moving to the Senate.
Hamilton, 37, was appointed to the three-member parole board by former Gov. John Carlin in November 1983 after seven years as an assistant Shawnee County prosecutor.
Fromme, 46, is an Overland Park attorney. His father, Alex M. Fromme, died in October 1982 at the age of 67 after serving 16 years on the Kansas Supreme Court.
Most Kansas wheat ripe very early
TOPEKA (AP) — The 1987 Kansas wheat harvest pushed north last week, with the most progress reported in the central portion of the state, according to the Kansas Agricultural Statistics crop reporting service.
In its weekly dispatch on Kansas crops, the statistics service said all wheat acreage had turned color by the end of last week, well ahead of the normal pace.
About 80 percent of Kansas' wheat had reached the ripe stage, compared to 75 percent reported last year and far out-pacing the five-year average of 30 percent for this date.
The actual harvest is only 35 percent complete, lagging behind last year when 50 percent of the wheat
Infestations appear more widespread this year than in the past and the reporting service blamed the mild winter on the high survival rate of the pests. Common rust and smut was widespread.
Sorghum planting was 90 percent complete, ahead of both last year and the average pace. No major disease or insect problems were evident, although chinch bug migrations from small grain fields were causing some damage to seedling milo.
Overall, 47 percent of the crop was rated in excellent condition by the reporting service while 42 percent was rated in rating and 11 percent was rated fair.
Surface moisture was generally adequate with 8 percent of the state reporting a surplus and 22 percent citing a shortage. Sub-surface moisture also was mostly adequate with 5 percent noting a surplus and 10 percent reporting a shortage.
crop had been harvested by this time. However, the 1987 harvest is ahead of the five-year average of 10 percent of the crop in hand.
Soybean planting reached 85 percent completion, slightly behind the 90 percent rate of last year. The crop was rated at 55 percent excellent, 38 percent good and 7 percent fair.
Overall, 74 percent of the corn crop was rated in excellent shape with 25 percent rated good and 1 percent fair.
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5 states to discuss waste disposal
Mike Hayden, Nebraska Gov. Kay A. Orr and Oklahoma Gov. Henry Bellman, said Clinton's press secretary.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Governors and representatives of the five member states of the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission will meet in Arkansas next month to discuss disposal of radioactive waste, Gov. Bill Clinton's office said yesterday.
Clinton will host the meeting July 2 at the Capitol. Expected to attend the meeting are Kansas
Clinton has asked Raymond Peery, executive director of the compact commission, to brief the governors and be available to answer their questions.
The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. in the Governor's Conference at the Capitol.
Congress authorized the formation of the compact in 1983 to identify potential disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste.
Two sites, in Dallas and Cleveland counties in southeast Arkansas, have been identified in a preliminary study as potential sites for disposal facilities, although residents in the area have voiced opposition to locating a waste dump there.
FBI suspects link in six bank burglaries
BEAVER, Kan. (AP) — The burglar of a bank in Beaver may be connected to five other bank burglaries in small towns in the last seven months, an FBI spokesman said yesterday.
ties do not know how much money was taken, and they have no suspects.
Mike Kortan, a spokesman in Kansas City, Mo., said the agency is investigating the break-in as a possible threat to lives and homes in central and eastern Kansas.
Two vaults of the Farmers State Bank were ransacked after a cutting torch was used to break open their steel doors, Barton County Sheriff Gene Marks said yesterday. Authori-
"You can't rule out some kind of connection," Kortan said.
south of the Rice-Ellsworth county line.
The burglaries have occurred in towns with a population of less than 500, and four have taken place within 40 miles of Great Bend. Beaver is about 20 miles northeast of Great Bend.
In January, banks in Lorraine and Geneseo were burglarized. Lorraine is 30 miles northeast of Great Bend in Ellsworth County, and Geneseo is 35 miles northeast of Great Bend, just
In December, an Arcadia bank was burglarized. Arcadia is near the Kansas-Missouri border.
The Beaver break-in is connected to the Monday morning burglaries of a service station and grain elevator in town, Marks said, and the cutting torch used in the bank burglary was taken from the elevator.
In March, banks in Sylvia, 35 miles southeast of Great Bend in Reno County, and Prescott, 75 miles south of Kansas City, also were burglarized.
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