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Tho Sallna Journal Monday, February 14, 1983 Page 3 Doyen says his severance tax bill is his own TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) Senate President Ross Doyen says the severance tax bill he will introduce this week in the Senate is his own and not the work of oil and natural gas lobbyists. Doyen, a Republican, Sunday denied accusations by sources quoted in the Wichital Eagle-Beacon who said lobbyists from the oil and gas industry drafted the tax bill in Doyen's office last Week. "They (lobbyists) haven't drafted it (the bill), and I don't expect them to draft it," Doyen said in a telephone interview from his home in Concordia. "I put the thing together several weeks ago.

They certainly didn't put the legislation together for me," Doyen said. Doyen said that he asked lobbyists questions about the proposed tax and that they provided him with information about how the tax would be collected. The lobbyists who allegedly wrote the bill included Duane "Pete" McGffl of the Legislative Policy Group that represents 40 western Kansas oil and gas producing counties, Donald Schnacke of the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association, Thomas Sloan of Getty Refining, and former Republican Lt. Gov. Shelby Smith, a lobbyist for Wichita oil producer Donald Slawson, the newspaper said.

"That's absolutely incorrect," Schnacke said, "Lobbyists don't write legislation or introduce legislation. We were asked by Senator Doyen to meet with him and answer questions and provide information." Doyen said his bill would raise about $60 million with a 7 percent severance tax on oil and natural gas that includes a "credit-back" plan that would let producers get a tax credit for money they pay in local property taxes on their production. "We're against that bill," Schnacke said, "We are not supporting any severance tax." A spokesman from Democratic Gov. John Carlin's office said Carlin had heard that Doyen let lobbyists write the tax bill. "This certainly seems to the governor to be a bit out of the ordinary to have these lobbyists, who have tried to defeat any type of severance tax, sit down and write a severance tax bill," said Michael Swenson, Carlin's press secretary.

"It's the best of both worlds for the oil and natural gas industry, but it is not in the best interest of the entire state of Kansas," he said. Since the 1980 legislative session, Carlin has been a staunch supporter of a severance tax, which Doyen has bitterly opposed. Carlin based much of his successful re-election to the governorship last fall on his advocacy of the tax. In his proposed budget for fiscal 1984, Carlin has asked for a 7 percent severance tax on oil and natural gas production and a 4 percent processing tax on natural gas liquids. The package would raise $138.5 million in the nine months that it would be in effect during the first year and $173 million a year after that.

LAWYER (Continued from Page 1) what to expect." And to be truthful, Bengston said, at the time of his decision, he wasn't quite sure what to expect from law. "In high school, I was the type who was active in debate and speech," he said. "People said I was good in those areas and a few wondered why I go into law. I got to thinking and decided to go ahead." Bengston received a dual degree from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, in public administration and law, before he came back to his hometown. "I spent a summer in Minneapolis and a year in Lakewood, which is a suburb of Denver.

I was then offered a chance to come to Salina and practice law I like Salina. I've had a chance to live in larger cities, and I came back to Salina just because I enjoy the town and the sense of community. "Put it this way, it's the type of community where each citizen, if they want to, can feel like they are an integral part of the city. You have a sense of belonging." And that, he said, is important. think it is important for each person not really to have a desire or a need for power so much as wanting to do something in a community and being able to do it.

In larger places, most people don't have that sense of identity, that sense of belonging." That's why, he says, he's involved in various community organizations. 'It comes down to caring about people," he said, "and perhaps developing a sense of ethics. That, I think, comes from a strong faith in God. Your ethics are, I believe, a gift from God. And they are something He places in our heart to allow our faith to develop." Bengtson's faith in God, law and community, he says, all tie together.

"I do not mean to come off as a preacher," he said. "For I am not that way. My faith is But you have asked The primary purpose, I think, foe each of us being here is to please God. we can do that by being what he wants us to be You ask why I became an attorney and it is to serve, tortry and find justice according to God's truth." To live by that faith, he said, demands one rule for living. ''The main thing I concern myself with, especially in the context of my work it boils down to being totally honest.

And to not be of offense to anyone. As an attorney, that does not mean I cannot challenge other attorneys, but that in the context of dealing with people, I must be totally true. have three things which I value integrity, truth and knowledge. And of those three, I feel my integrity is the most valuable posesslon. Knowledge is something that is accumulated Integrity is truth.

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Jta Pictartt, liiftffalt Tfli Altai, Howwit Grvtar, prwi (ormu: Pfel iilw Stnidwii fc Tfc Wim tomb, P. 0, Bwt Abilene man loves field trials By BECCY TANNER Staff Writer ABILENE The story of Koko, Pokey and Wayne Ward is just another dog story. It features puppy love and devotion, birds and a counterculture. And all of it, Wayne Ward contended, is gaining enough popularity that it is' "sweeping the country." At 43, Wayne Ward, Abilene, is a "Kansan born and raised in the state and never really left it." He is "into" field trialing which he describes as "one step beyond hunting." "It's where you train the dogs," he said, "You take the dog's natural ability to mark a bird a dog that's competitive, and you work with them." Almost 11 years ago, Ward, in a way, walked into the side door of field trialing. "A friend and I were out hunting in Cheyenne Bottoms.

And we shot maybe 14 birds and could only locate five We thought that was disgusting. And decided maybe we should get a dog to retrieve birds. My friend, Frank Lombard, said he'd buy the dog if I'd keep it." That's when, Ward said as he pulled out of wad of snuff and poked it in his mouth, Koko, a chocolate brown Labrador Retriever, "walked into the family's life." Nine years ago, Koko was trained for hunting, Ward said. Soon after, she had her first batch of pups. One of the pups, Pokey, showed talent and he was trained for field trialing.

That was seven years ago. "You ask what's it like and the only thing I can tell you is well, you know in terms of golf what the PGA (Professional Golfer's Association) is? Well, field trialing, in the world of dogs, is the PGA." A big, barrel-chested man, Ward confesses he's been hunting "ever since I was old enough to carry a gun." That was when he was 7 years old and carried a .22 rifle. "My dad was a hunter," Ward said, "and when we'd go pheasant hunting he always had a pointing dog." All his life, Ward has been around dogs but never, he confesses, has it been with such enthusiasm. "Field trialing is the type of event where everyone in the family is involved," he said. "My wife and daughters go along to the tournaments." Still, he said, that doesn't really explain what field trialing is all about.

In the world of field trialing there are pointing dog trials, retriever trials (which Ward is involved in) and coon dog trials. TRAINER AND TRAINEES- Wayne Ward, Abilene, pets According to Ward, the history of retriever trials began during the Depression. "It is a sport in which a dog is tested on land and water on his ability to mark, remember and retrieve birds. The dog is also tested on its ability to handle a bird when it doesn't know where it is," he said. "I guess the way field trialing began was when one hunter said to another, 'My dog is better than That's how it began, and that's how we began to have our rules for competition." The key to field trialing, Ward said, is in selecting a good dog.

And that costs money "anywhere from a couple hundred dollars on up to the thousands." "A good field trialing dog has got to show and a very high desire to retrieve." he said. "Now, I'll tell you what I mean by that There was this set of puppies that were eight weeks old. And there were three males in the litter. And I wanted one of them as a stud dog I didn't know which one to pick. Journal Photo by Tom Doncy Koko and Pokey awaits his turn.

"So, there was this dead pigeon. And I threw it in with the three pups. Two of them showed an interest. The larger male began playing with it. And a smaller one grabbed onto a wing.

The bigger one was gaining ground so the smaller one began shaking it and caused the bigger one to drop it Now, I'ask you which one do you think I chose? The smaller one because he showed bird- iness." But even after the birdiness, Ward said, there is "oh, so much more to field trialing," It's like the old theorem "all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares." "All field trial dogs are good hunters," he said. "But not all hunters are good field trial dogs I'd say about 90 percent of the dogs people hunt haven't been trained properly. "You take a dog that's been trained for field trialing out hunting. People see that and begin to think Old Fido might be just as smart if only he was trained. That's how people get hooked'on field trialing.

That's how I got hooked." Plains winter called one of the worst AMARILLO, Texas (UPI) Old timers, cattlemen and weather experts who like to recall their favorite, worst winters say the frigid, white blast of 198243 is one of the worst in Southern Plains history. Near record snows in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and western Kansas stranded people in their homes, caused millions of dollars in damage to road surfaces and killed and weakened thousands of cattle. "This year was the worst from a feed yard standpoint," said Charles Koontz, president of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, "In 1971-72, it was also pretty rough, but this was worse than that one." Feed lots throughout the Texas Panhandle reported cattle losses of up to 1 percent, but even higher losses were reported in Kansas among newly purchased, young cattle on the range that were released just before the latest storm, "From the reports I've heard locally, the numbers of deaths have ranged from 3 percent to 9 percent," said Jim Ungles, past president of the Kansas Livestock Association. Surviving cattle are severely stressed, and producers will have to pay more to get them back to normal weight, be said. AmarUlo and other Texas Panhandle cities were paralyzed by two successive storms that dumped almost 20 inches of snow into drifts ranging from to 8 feetdeep.

Jn Amarillo alone, street repairs will cost an estimated 12 million, according to City Manager John Stiff. Officials with the Texas Department of Highways and Public portion refused to even guess bow much damage was inflicted on state highways and farm-to-market roads. "It's one of the worst (winters) we've had," said Laurence Smith, in charge of the AmarUlo Nation- al Weather Service. He said the Panhandle recorded inches of snow for January alone, the third heaviest amount for that month in almost 100 years. Despite its misery, the winter of 1982-83 will not nudge the memories of past winters from the minds of old timers, cattlemen and weather experts.

"I imagine the worst winter storm we've had in this area as far as damage to livestock was in 1957," Ungles said. "The snow drifts were as high as the eaves of houses in some areas. Some of the cattle died from inhaling too much snow in their lungs." Texas Panhandle cattlemen recall the winter of 1971-72, which killed thousands of cattle. But if there was a single worst winter for cowmen, Ungles said it might have been in 1886, "As the story goes, starting at the fence along the Sante Fe Railroad right-of-way, you could walk to Dodge City, to the Colorado line on the carcasses of dead cattle," he said. For Albuquerque, N.M., weatherman Dan True, the "killer buzzard" of March 1957 stands out the most.

True, who was then working for an Amarillo television station, said he confidently told his viewers that the storm system would move harmlessly to the east. "I put you to bed with the storm moving out of your hair," he said. "But during the night it slowly backed up toward the Texas Panhandle. It caused more trouble than any single storm." True said 80 mph winds whipped the snow into drifts on which "you could walk up on your house. A man in Dalhart driving down the street went over the curb a couple of yards away from a house! He died right there in the car.

He had no the house was there." Legislature to focus on rape, beer issues TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) A measure that would make rape a crime within a marriage and another that would raise the legal beer drinking age from 18 to 19 are among issues the Kansas Legislature is expected to address this week. Also, the House is expected to debate a funding bill for public schools in Kansas. House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, says he expects the rape bill that emerged from the House Judiciary Committee to take several hours of debate in the House. Currently in Kansas, spouses are immune from prosecution for the crime of rape.

Today the House Federal and State Affairs Committee is to consider a bill that would increase the drinking age to 19 years old and institute Sunday beer sales. Under the beer bill, all beer would be single strength, which would be 4.5 percent alcohol by weight. Currently beer is sold at 3.2 percent and 6 percent. Opposing the measure is the Kansas Beer Wholesalers group, whose lobbyist Mark Boranyak says Kansans do not want just one classification of beer. Boranyak says if the age is raised from 18 to 19 years, the next move would be to raise it to 21.

About 144,000 Kansans are between ages of 18 and 21. The beer wholesalers favor the part of the bill that would allow beer to be sold in Kansas on Sunday. Boranyak says 40 states, including Kansas' four border states, have Sunday sales. In the Senate, upper chamber President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, is expected to introduce his own form of severance tax. For the past two sessions, Doyen has led opposition to the tax.

Also, the full Senate is to act midweek on a bill that would change the state's water storage plan by altering the rates charged for taking water from state's reservoirs. Also today the Senate Confirmations Committee is to hear from former House Speaker Wendell Lady, an Overland Park Republican who has been recommended by Democratic Gov. John Carlin as a state Board of Regents member. Some Senate Republicans have said they intend to oppose Lady's confirmation because of Lady's support for Carlin's proposed severance tax and because Lady refused to back the GOP nominee in the 1982 governor's race. Olathe slayings frustrate disbanded Metro Squad OLATHE, Kan.

(UPI) A spokesman for the Kansas City Metro Squad which investigated the beating death of two sisters says it is doubtful authorities will ever know who killed the girls. "We have followed every lead that has come to our attention and we have nothing pointing to a suspect," Detective Clarence Luther, spokesman of the Metro Squad, told the Kansas City Star. "We may never know who did it." The Metro Squad, which interviewed 165 people and invested nearly 1,900 man-hours trying to determine who killed 17-year-old Kelly Duffield and her 12-year-old sister Janelle, returned the case to Olathe police Saturday. Four officers with the Olathe Police Department, assisted by officers from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, will remain on the case for a least a week, Olathe Police Capt. Jeff Herrman said.

A department spokesman Sunday said there was no new information in the case. Janelle was killed during an attack in her parents' suburban Kansas City home on Jan. 28. Kelly was abducted. Her frozen body was discovered Feb.

7 in the spillway of a lake. A hammer believed used in the attacks was found nearby. The girls' brother, 15-year-old Paul Duffield, was beaten by the assailant but was not killed. The children's father told police that he was asleep in the family's upstairs Johnson County duplex at the time of the attack. Gov.

John Carlin has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The Kansas City Crime Commission has offered a $1,000 reward for information in the case. Liquor store robbery selected for Salina 'Crime of the Week' At approximately 7:40 p.m. on Dec. 15, a white male with a ski mask pulled down over his face entered the Carl Garrett Retail Liquor Store, 510 E.

Iron, and demanded the money from the cash register. After taking the money, he was last seen walking west from the store. The subject is described by police as being about 20 years old, six feet tall, 160 pounds with grey eyes. He was wearing blue jeans or slacks, and a plaid shirt. The Garrett Liquor Store robbery was selected by Salina police as the Crime of the Week for Crimestoppers, an organization which pays cash rewards for information which leads to the successful solution of criminal activity.

If you have any information about this or any other crime, call Crimes- toppers at 825-2000. You may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 and you need not identify yourself. briefly- Workshop on elderly scheduled An all-day workshop, "Is It Permanent? Assessing and Treating Alzheimer's Disease and Other Confusionai States in the Elderly," is scheduled for March 15, starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Salina Bicentennial Center. It is sponsored by the Central Kansas Mental Health Center.

The workshop will focus on aging persons who have such severe memory loss that they can no longer care for themselves. The roles of family members and nursing personnel who care for confused individuals, and designing a more effective care environment, also will be addressed. The workshop leader is Mary Opal Wolanin, RN, MPA, Tucson, Ariz. Continuing education credit is offered. Cost is $25.

Contact the Center at 8234322 for further information or to register. CPR instructor classes canceled The American Red CPR and Multi-Media First Aid Instructor es have been canceled according to Charlene Ramsey. The courses were scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14-17 at the Civil Preparedness Classroom.

Ramsey said classes will be rescheduled by the North-Central Kansas Chapter office..