University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 18, 1987
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Spokesmen back highway plan
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Representatives of cities and counties across Kansas stood united yesterday in support of a proposal to build 740 miles of new highways at a cost of about $772 million.
About 70 people crammed into a crowded meeting room to testify before the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee, which has scheduled three days of hearings on the proposal.
U. S. Rep. Bob Whittaker, an Augusta Republican representing southeast Kansas, was among those lending his support to the bill. He said that the state must build roads before businesses and that industries would expand into areas now suffering from depressed economies.
"We firmly believe the state must make an investment in new highways in order to boost economic growth in our region." Whittaker said. "We need new highways, and we're willing to pay for them."
Whittaker spoke only briefly about
whether the state should build four lane highways, which meet interstate standards, or opt for less expensive "super-two lane" roads.
"Everyone would like to own a Cadillac over a Chevro," Whittaker said. "But, if you didn't have a car, you'd be mighty proud to own a Chevy. In southeast Kansas, we don't have a car; we might happy to have a super two highway and be willing to wait for a Cadillac until we can afford one."
Like several others who testified, Whittaker emphasized the need for lawmakers to act while bond rates are favorable and interest rates low.
"The window of opportunity is open now," he said. "I would urge you to move forward with your initiative. With interest rates on revenue bonds at their lowest level in years, there will be more demand than the present to begin an aggressive highway construction program across the state."
Whittaker's remarks were echoed by nearly everyone testifying, which included groups from Parsons and
Labette County, Fredonia, Winfield,
Cherokee County, Hutchinson, Russell,
Great Bend and Barton County,
the Northwest Passage Coalition,
Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal.
Dave Seaton, publisher of the Winfield Daily Courier and member of Gov. Mike Hayden's highway commission, took a more direct tact on the issue of four versus two lane highways.
"Industries do not relocate along two-lane roads." Seaton said. "As citizens of southeast Kansas, we may be satisfied with improved two-lane highways for our own use. However, the industries and young people we seek to keep and attract may not.
"I have believed for many years that linking southeast Kansas directly with the four-lane interstate highway system is the most important single transportation step that can be taken to help Kansas's long-term economic prospects."
Seaton urged the committee to examine the possibility of building four-lane highways rather than super-twos. He also asked lawmakers to
follow Hayden's proposal to study the various highway proposals for six months before making any decisions
Others, however, warned that the drop in bond prices may lead to ruin.
"I find the governor's thinking sound," Seaton said. "We are all in a hurry for better economic times. A project of this magnitude and the treatment of resources it represents and demands careful, thorough consideration of its costs, benefits and financing from a statewide point of view."
The bill calls for an independent management team to establish priorities and construct on a "first and foremost basis" a variety of projects. The highways would be modern supported by a budget financed by the sale of 30-year revenue bonds repaid by income generated from the gas tax increase
speakers, valued together at $70,
were taken from a student's car
Saturday night or Sunday morning
at 15th Street, KU police reported.
A tape deck, a compact disc player, four speakers, two amplifiers, an equalizer and a radar detector, valued together at $2,470, were taken between 10 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday, KU police reported. The items were taken from a student's car parked in an underground Jayhawk Towers parking lot.
Catholics debate AIDS prevention
A student's unattended denim jacket and its contents, valued at $71.50, were taken from a weight room at Robinson Center between 9 and 10 p.m. Sunday, KU police reported.
United Press International
As Catholic resistance to full AIDS education becomes known, criticism to it appears to be mounting, the article said.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Catholic educators are at odds with the U.S.
Surgeon General and many public schools systems by not informing its students about AIDS transmission prevention methods other than sexual abstinence, an independent Catholic newsweekly reports this week.
The Catholic educators are finding themselves the focal point of an increasing debate over the use of condoms, according to an article in the Feb. 20 issue of the National Catholic Reporter.
The surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, has said that dissemination of presentative information, including thousands of lives in coming years,
The U.S. Catholic education system, with nearly 3 million students, is the largest private educational network in the United States. A substantial portion of that number are in large urban areas, including Chicago and Philadelphia.
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“As a physician, and as a Catholic,” said German Maissonet, medical director of the Los Angeles Minority AIDS Project. “I cannot sit by and watch people die when information can make a difference. We're not going to stop kids from having sex God knows we've tried. So I'm in favor of providing the information
On the Record
because this virus (AIDS) does not forgive and does not forget."
However, most Catholic educators think that providing information concerning the use of codoms imprecily condones artificial contraception in violation of church teaching, and require preeminent sex, the article said.
"What we need to do is to be more forceful and forthright about what we've always been teaching," said Father Tom Galligan, education secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
"If our teachings had been followed all along by everybody," he continued, "we wouldn't be in this mess (AIDS epidemic)."
Sister Catherine McNamee, director of the National Catholic Education Center.
"Monomary, celibacy the only safe sex is a monogamous relation
"My understanding is that condoms are a widely used device for contraception," said Sister Cathy Campbell, a spokesman for Chicago Catholic Schools. "Therefore, it would be contradictory to advocate it on one hand (for health reasons) and oppose it on the other (contraception)."
The Chicago archdiocese, which has the largest Catholic high school population in the United States, is considering AIDS education but will not mention the role of condoms in transmission prevention, the article said.
Committee endorses provisions for betting
The Associated Press
TOFEKA - Fearing that too much of the profits from part-mutuel gambling may go to out-of-state dog breeders, a house committee endorsed a requirement yesterday that would require 50 percent of all racing contracts go to Kansas-based greyhound kennels.
"They can have as many kennels as the racing commission says, but 50 percent of them will be Kansas kennels." Eckert said. He also said the provision was an important addition to the rule set, because serious about using part-mutual wagering to promote economic development.
The other change would empower the state猿 commission to adopt rules to allow any qualified greyhound owner in Kansas to find a way to enter pari-mutuel races in the state regardless of the closed contract system with kennel operators
In addition, the House Federal and State Affairs Committee approved a related provision designed to ensure that all qualified Kansas-bred grey horses be given an opportunity to compete at part-mutual tracks in the state.
However, the committee rejected language that would forbid the racing commission to issue a track license to any group that had not gained an endorsement from the local county commission.
The action cleared the way for a final committee vote today on a bill that would enact a constitutional amendment to legalize trackside Kansas voters and dog races. Kansas voters approved the amendment in November.
be too restrictive. Under the bill, track operators would be allowed to use a "closed contract" system to pick the kennels that would provide dogs for pari-mutuel races.
Rep. Dick Eckert, R-Wetmore,
denied opponents' contentions that
the 50 percent kennel provision would
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
7:00 p.m.
Paul Muni stars in this gripping Depression drama about a decent man sentenced to life on the brutal chain gang. It is a stark, compelling film of social injustice with what critic Pauline Kael called "one of the great closing scenes in the history of films." (1932)
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They've Traveled Thousands of Miles Just for YOU
The FRANZ LISZT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
of Budapest, Hungary Janos Rolla, Music Director
Presented by The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts
Concert Series
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 19, 1987
Hoch Auditorium
Program
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Bach
Serenade in G Major, K. 525 ("Eine Kleine Nachtmusik")
Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major
Stamitz
Sonata for Strings No. 3 in C Major Rossini
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 Tchaikovsky
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