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Bennett praises Kansas economy
"Kansas has displayed the rational and orderly growth we all want," Bennett said. "However, we have to be mindful of the fact that a business can fail if the agriculture—is in a degressive situation."
The lowest unemployment rate in the nation, increased industrial development and growth in personal income indicate that the Kansas economy is healthy, Gov. Robert Bennett said Friday in the Kansas Union.
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Bennett's remarks illustrated the optimism of the 14th Annual Economic Report of the Governor, released to 200 businessmen who were at the Union for a conference on the Kansas economic outlook. The conference was sponsored by the University of Missouri's Association of Commerce and Industry, the Kansas Bankers Association and the Kansas Department of Economic Development.
Darwin Dalacoff, professor of economics who helped prepare Bennett's report, said the unemployment rate in Kansas would drop to 3.8 per cent in 1977.
BENNETT'S REPORT said the Kansas unemployment rate dropped from 4.8 per cent in 1975 to 4.1 per cent in 1976, less than a quarter of that in 1975 and 8.5 per cent in 1978 and 8.3 per cent in 1979.
Bennett said that last year's 12.4 per cent
Bennett praised the Department of Economic Development. In the last three years, he said, 444 new businesses have invested in his state, have invested in major expansion.
increase in wages and salaries meant Kansai could stay ahead of inflation and cut spending.
"Economic growth in Kansas is slower and steadier than in the rest of the nation, because the Kansas economy is heavily agricultural. We do experience the same ups and downs as the rest of the nation, they're just not as great."
ALSO IMPORTANT, Bennett said, was the reversal of population declines in 39 rural counties and the resulting strengthening of their economies.
Kansas government can't raise the price of wheat, Bennett said, but will try to help agriculture by finding new markets and funding research.
Daisoff, whose report on the Kansas economy followed Bennett's, said that even though "Kansas finds itself in a good case," the outlook is mixed. Kansas is not an island.
DAICOFF SAID improvements in nonnarrational sectors of the Kansas economy absorbed last year's declines in crop prices and helped to keep the economy healthy.
Kansans can't escape higher heating costs
Panelists in the energy seminar were William W. Hambleton, director of the Kansas Geological Survey; Lamar Weaver, director of the Kansas energy office; and William E. Wall, president of Kansas Power and Light.
Higher prices and reduced supplies is the energy outlook for the future, a panel of three energy experts indicated Friday at the economics seminar on the energy situation.
The seminar was part of the Economic
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HAMBLETON SAID that despite the fact that Kansas was the nation's 10th largest energy producer, its production of oil and natural gas have declined and would come
Kansas hasn't been affected by a shortage of natural gas, Hambleton said, because of its large distribution system. But the state isn't insulated from economic changes which could result in shortages, according to Hambleton.
He said the nation's outlook was basically the same because new energy supplies were insufficient to fill the gap left by declining production.
"The United States will be forced to depend more upon imported crude oil,"
"and the oil companies are under increasing pressure."
According to figures supplied in a written statement by R. J. Robel, chairman of the Kansas energy advisory council, the petroleum imports of the United States now exceed 60 billion barrels a day, compared with 4.3 million barrels a day imported only five years ago.
"The UNPRECEDENTED cold weather this year has caused energy problems that are not production problems," he said, "but are in the major transportation system."
Frozen inland waterways have reduced fuel shipping, and the cold weather makes it difficult to transport some fuels, such as No. 2 fuel oil, he said.
"If this continues, it could back up to
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There might not be enough propane for the grain drying, and reduced gasoline stocks could cause hardships to farmers during harvest next summer.
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HAMBLETON AND Weaver agreed that the team would be better than but said they were likely to occur in 1977.
"The policy of regulation in the past years has been to the point that we have underfunded energy costs and encouraged squandering." Weaver said.
"We're hooked on cheap energy and we can't continue on that line."
Exotic energy sources, such as solar and wind, still aren't developed far enough to provide a significant amount of reasonably priced energy. Weaver said.
He said Americans would be forced to change their energy use patterns and continue to look for alternative energy sources.
"I don't take the apocalyptic view that prices will skyrocket," he said. "They will increase, but those plants with the ability to use coal should be able to stabilize their fuel costs so that the rate of price increases should decelerate."
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WALL SAID higher prices for electricity also were unavoidable because of increasing costs of fuel used in the generating process.
But despite efforts to the contrary, the panel agreed that Americans will have to pay higher prices next year for all their energy supplies.
The farm implement industry in Kansas experienced a corresponding loss of business when the farmers' situation worsened, Daicoff said.
Southeast Kansas remains economically depressed, Daicoff said, and in drops in unemployment rate were mainly due to population loss.
A panel response to the two reports was given by Joseph Pichler, dean of the KU School of Business; Thomas Severn, economist for the state budget division; and Ronald Olsen, chairman of the department of economics.
"bright spots" in southeast Kansas, according to Daleoff.
He also said farm prices declined by 30 per cent in the third quarter of 1976, as farm production costs continued to rise.
Chanute and Coffeyville were the only
The Kansas economy is strong, the panelists said, but because the state depends on agriculture, bad weather could be favorable economic forecasts irrelevant.
Dole tells Republicans GOP has opportunity
By BARRY MASSEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Sen. Bob Dole, 1976 Republican vice-presidential candidate, told a large gathering of Kansas Republicans Saturday night that the future of the Republican party isn't as dismal as many persons have predicted.
Highlighting the finale of Kansas Day, which marks the 161st anniversary of Kansas' statehood, Dole spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 at a $13-a-plate dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the downtown Ramada Inn.
"We are a minority and we have a lot of work to do that would make weaker people shudder and 'ick up. But that's not the Republican spirit."
Dole expressed his concern about recent Republican losses in national and state elections, but said that there was a "tremendous opportunity" for Republicans if they worked hard in preparing for the next election.
"FOR THE FIRST time in 64 years the Democrats have control in the Kansas House, but it's only on a temporary basis." Dole said, prompting for appeal to subside.
"Now that they have it all," he said, "we have a responsibility and an opportunity to show people that we stand for something, and that we have a vision for the future."
DOLE SAID at the dinner, which honored his efforts in the recent presidential campaign, that the Republican party needed to be more assertive about its base of support before the next election.
He warned Republicans that they shouldn't dwell on the gloomy aspects of the past but should work for the future and the betterment of the party.
"There are a lot of people who see us as an anti-party protest," Dole said. "They think we care about the rich and not the poor, that we care about the whites and not the blacks or the Hispanics, or that we care about big government, that the environmentalists and small business."
"YOU AND I know that isn't true. We are the party of the people, the party of Abraham Lincoln. But we have to articulate our principles better.
What's wrong with the philosophies of
limited government, reduced spending and lower taxes?" Dole asked.
Concerning the last election, Dole said, it was a case of Southern pride that we cannot ignore.
But Dole said that in the future the Republican party had to "let the people know where we stand," and to focus on issues from all segments of the American population.
In the last national election, Dole said, the Republican party received less than 12 per cent of the vote.
"WE CAN'T spot them Democrats 90 per cent of any vote and win an election," he said. "I think we have to go out and prove that we're responsive and that they're concerned about inflation, taxes and unemployment."
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we have to start on a face-to-face basis.” Commenting on the current economic situation, Dole said he wasn't convinced that his dimming of her tax rebate program would work.
A recent Harris poll, he said, indicated that nearly two-thirds of all Americans would vote for a candidate in which would help stimulate the economy through increased spending as Carter had done.
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BEFORE THE CROW of Republicans, who had gathered from all parts of Kansas and included each GOP notables as Gov. Robert F. Kennedy, Congressmen Larry Winn and Keith Sebelius, Dole was in true form as he would be after the bitter and anplause on numerous occasions.
Yet he constantly reminded the partisan crowd that the Republicans should not be so rude.
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