University Daily Kansan / Fridav. January 23, 1987
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Overhaul in liquor laws is planned
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA - State legislators and lobbyists hope to overhaul state liquor regulation this year, if they can only find the time.
"We may not have time this session to do a good job with a complete revision." State Rep. Betty Jo Charlson, D-Lawrence, said yesterday.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said Kansas' liquor laws should be changed to coincide with legalization of liquor by the drink, which voters approved in a constitutional amendment in November.
"We've got to move on to get away from all this archaic and confusing legislation." Winter said.
The Senate's Federal and State Affairs Committee heard reaction yesterday to recommendations from the Kansas Liquor Law Review Commission. Former Gov. John Carlin appointed the commission in 1985.
In December, the commission proposed sweeping changes in Kansas liquor industry. Representatives of the liquor industry spoke to the Senate committee yesterday about the proposals.
Albert Loller, of the Retail Liquor Dealers Association, said the Legislature wouldn't have time this session to completely revise liquor laws. The legislature didn't "leave their pocketbooks at the door" when doing commission
Four of the 13 members of the liquor commission represented the liqueur industry.
work, as Carlin had asked
But Winter said that even if some members of the commission were
"We'll look at it and decide ourselves," he said.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cape, 1340 Ohio St., said in Lawrence yesterday that private firms can much attention under the proposals.
"Private clubs, except for the ones
the dres counters are going to
become."
Wallace said the recommendation that the state issue club cards and
keep the proceeds was ludicrous
Winter said the real disagreements about liquor law changes weren't between legislators.
"The fighting is among the vested interests of the liquor industry," he said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, director of Kansens for Life at Its Best, an anti-liquor lobbying group, said representatives of the liquor industry didn't have the public in mind when they made their proposals.
"We've had a lot of phone calls from people who want to know what to do with their tickets," Fitzgerald said.
"It is like asking cocaine dealers to come to Topeka and tell the legislature what changes to make in law," he said.
Between 700 and 800 tickets had been sold in Lawrence, according to Rob Fitzgerald, ticket manager at Liberty Hall, the only Capital Ticket Service (CATS) outlet in Lawrence.
People who called Kemper Arena last night were told by a recording to send their tickets and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Post Office Box 3425, Kansas City, Kan. 60103.
The concert was canceled because Phil Colline, the band's drummer and lead singer, was ill.
People who send in their tickets will receive the ticket value of $17.50 back
Last night's plans were shattered for about 18,000 Genesis fans expecting to see the band in concert at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
She won't be able to drive for two months. Because she hasn't found a ride from Lawrence to the classes she teaches at Washburn, she probably will have to give them up this semester, she said yesterday.
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"I'll lose my salary, unless it picks up by worker's compensation," Yacher said.
For about two months, Yacher, who is also an associate professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, will wear a special soft cast on her arm.
Her two sons and friends take turns driving her between her home, Wescote Hall, and one class in
Yacher said the English department had helped
Yacher broke her left arm in seven places Tuesday when she slipped on ice on a sidewalk west of Fraser Hall.
Nancy Yacher, instructor in English, will have to depend on the kindness of others for the next month or so.
Instructor slips, breaks arm
by moving a Fraser class to Wescoe, where her office is.
The doctor who set Yacher's arm at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., told her she was the third person he had treated for injuries caused by ice on campus. Yacher said.
Vickie Thomas, general counsel at the University of Kansas, said state institutions were not liable for any injuries suffered from slipping on ice and snow on state land.
Mike Richardson, associate director of KU's department of facilities operations, said ice and snow removal on campus had been hurt by budget cuts. The department's budget was cut 3.7 percent.
"My experience on Tuesday was that the ice was not cleared and was dangerous." Yachar said
"It's not going as well as we hoped." Richardson said.
Budget cuts have reduced allotment for ice removal
Since the department's budget was also cut in 1983, fewer workers are available to work on ice and snow removal than in previous years, he said.
By TODD COHEN
By a Kansan reporter
Staff writer
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