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Friday, April 6, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
County may join 3rd District
Douglas County will become part of the congressional district that includes Johnson and Wyandotte counties if preliminary census data stand up, Secretary of State Bill Graves said yesterday.
Bv Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
The Secretary of State's office produced an informal map representing possible restructuring of districts that would eliminate the 8th District of southeast Kansas and move Douglas County into the 3rd District with Wyandotte, Johnson, Miami and Linn counties.
Kansas is expected to lose one of its five seats in Congress when districts are redrawn in 1992. Although
the population of Kansas is expected to increase slightly, that increase is outweighed by proportionately larger increases in other states.
Graves spoke to about 25 College Republicans at the Kansas Union. He said restructuring districts could hurt Republicans' ability to hold offices.
but Graves predicted the property tax dilemma would not affect Gov. Mike Hayden's chances for re-election.
He said the people knew that former Gov. John Carlin, a Democrat, was at least as responsible for reappraisal and classification as Hayden.
Graves, a former KU student, is running for re-election and currently is unopposed.
Felled telephone pole causes damage to cars
By a Kansan reporter
Two parked cars, one of which is owned by a KU student, were damaged yesterday afternoon when a telephone pole fell on them at 12th and Indiana streets.
Marketa McKenzie of the Lawrence Police Department, said that the retracted rear shovel on a backhoe driven by a city employee caught a wire attached to a telephone pole. The wire stretched, and the tension snapped the pole. Neither the wire nor the pole was in use.
"I didn't realize my car had been hit," said Lisa
Marshall, Kansas City, Kan., junior. "Then I saw some wood on my roof. And then I noticed I didn't have a driver's mirror any more."
Mike Benschoter, driver of the backhoe, said that a city ordinance required telephone wires to be at least 13 feet high. The shovel arm on the backhoe was 10-foot-10-inches high when retracted.
Tommy Jones, safety officer for the city, said the pole snapped because it was rotten and the wire apparently was too low.
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