一角 8 Friday, January 16, 1987 / University Daily Kansar Kansans remember King March led by Hayden The Associated Press. TOPEKA — Hundreds of school children and scores of state officials crowded the ground floor of the Capitol rotunda yesterday to observe the 58th anniversary of the birth of the late Martin Luther King Jr. About 500 spectators watched and listened to sung and spoken tributes to the civil rights leader, who was shot to death in 1968. Some gathered around the railing on the second floor to watch the ceremony that began with a march from the Judicial Center, across the street south of the Capitol. Gov. Mike Hayden led the march, and the crowd included many legislata My dream as governor is to make Kansas a place of greater equality.' Mike Hayden Governor tors and officials, including Treasurer Joan Finney, Secretary of State Bill Graves and Attorney General Bob Stephan. Although King's birthday was yesterday, the federally designated holiday will not be observed until Monday. "My dream as governor is to make Kansas a place of greater equality." Hayden said during brief remarks. He admitted it permits living the dream." Hayden presented the Governor's Martin Luther King Jr. Award to Emmett J. Tucker Jr., a longtime community activist in Kansas City, Kan. Tucker has been active in the United Way and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Tucker referred to King's legacy of non-violent activism in accepting the "Injustices and inequalities still seek to erode our creativity," Tucker said. Chester C. Owens, a Kansas City, Kan., city councilman, urged the crowd to use King's philosophy to confront social problems such as poverty and the nuclear arms race. "The words of King rang loudly when he stated, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish as fools," Owens said. "We must commit ourselves to seeing that poverty and the conditions that create poverty can and will be eliminated." King supporters seek more recognition for holiday United Press International ATLANTA — As most of America prepares to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Monday, family and followers of the slain civil rights leader are still pushing to have the holiday recognized in nine states that have so far refused, and in Arizona, where it was rescinded this year. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, Evan Mecham was a beautiful blow. Exan Mecham was a beautiful blow. "But I don't think it's very popular now to be against the holiday when the majority of the country is going in a positive direction," she said. Mecham fulfilled a campaign pledge by rescinding the executive order creating a state King holiday, making Arizona the only state to have repealed it. Nine other states have never embraced the King day as a paid day off for employees. King holiday supporters in those states are making a push for its acceptance, and even Mecham has said he will ask for a statewide referendum on whether it should be a paid state holiday. At the heart of the campaign are the Kings — Coretta and her four children — who frequently jet around the country, lobbying dissenting legislatures and encouraging grassroots support to adopt the holiday. "Sometimes there are complica "I plan to visit some more states. We think it's going to be harder with the last ones. But if we can get three or four a year, that will be steady and sustainable," there is a matter of time before all 50 states will be celebrating the holiday." tions within states that make it difficult for states to have the holiday right away." King said. "But we are actively working on those states. The King holiday was born last year amid controversy and mixed reactions. Besides a day off on the third Monday in January — King's actual birthday is Jan. 15 — for state and federal workers, celebrations were held in several cities. However, most attention was focused on Atlan ta, King's hometown, where the annual ecumenical service honoring King took place held, as well as a parade. Some new twists have been added to the celebration this year, including a "Freedom Train" that will carry students from New York to Atlanta. It is designed to revive the student movement of the 1960s. Participants range from longtime King supporters, such as the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Ralph David Abernathy, to members of the Reagan administration. Education Secretary William Bennett will join in a King teach-in program at an Atlanta elementary school, and Secretary of State George Shultz will speak at the ecumenical service Philippine President Corazon Aquino will be given with the 1987 Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize on Monday. Aquino will not be present — her sister-in-law will accept the award — but she will speak to the gathering via satellite. But King said the best is yet to come. "This holiday emerges as a newborn, certainly not full-blown in all of its ramifications and with its full impact," King said. "The national holiday will evolve into an even more meaningful occasion in subsequent years. We are literally creating a new American tradition." Firm makes construction estimates for Kansas super 2-lane highways The Associated Press TOPEKA — Kansas taxpayers would have to shell out $706 million during the next five years to build modern super two-lane highways across southern and central sections of the state, according to findings unveiled yesterday from two feasibility studies. In comparison, the studies showed that building an entirely new set of four-lane highways to span southern Kansas and to link Wichita to Interstate 70 at Hays would cost $2.9 billion during the same period. "The most promising options appear to be funding the projects either through an increase in the gasoline tax or an increase in the sales tax." Ron Hartje, a member of the Senate committee that conducted the study told a joint meeting of the House and Senate transportation committees. studies, which cover the possibility of building modern highways along four proposed routes: Wichita to Joplin, Mo., Wichita to the Colorado line via Garden City, Wichita to the Oklahoma line in southwest Kansas, and Wichita to Hays via Great Bend. The 1986 Kansas Legislature agreed to pay $800,000 for the two Figures from a privately funded economic impact study indicate that construction of a new highway through southeast Kansas would bring between 6,600 and 10,700 new jobs to the area during the next 20 years. Although government and business officials along all of the corridors have eagerly anticipated results of the feasibility studies, the most excitement has come in economically troubled southeast Kansas. Hartje, a project manager with engineering firm of Howard Needles Tammen and Bergendoff, told the lawmakers that a super two highway configuration would handle projected traffic loads on all of the routes through at least year 2010. "A good super two highway as we have described will handle far in excess of 10,000 cars per day," Hartie said. Money for the massive highway construction program could be raised through a special bond issue, Hartje said. He said the bonds could be paid off with money from a 4-cent increase in the state gasoline tax or a 1-cent sales tax increase. Building the highways as toll roads had been ruled out, Hartje said. "Without exception, on each of the corridors there were no toll options that were even remotely feasible." he said. 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