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15 19001 adt THE WICHITA EAGLE Saturday, February 21, 1998 Stovall pushing legislation for chemical castration Bill would allow judges to order chemical "No study nor any expert would declare such a treattreatment for sex ment guarantees no sex crime would be committed offenders; no action is while an offender is undergoing this treatment. There taken on the measure. is no guarantee not even surgical castration." Associated Press Attorney General Carla Stovall TOPEKA Attorney General Carla Stovall is urging lawmakers crime would be committed while perhaps within a year when to endorse legislation allowing an offender is undergoing this treat- those committed under the law will chemical castration for sexual ofment. There is no guarantee not be eligible for release. She said now fenders as a condition for their reeven surgical castration." would be a good time to rework the lease from prison.

However, one study shows the re- law because nobody committed has Stovall also made a pitch Friday peat rate for sex offenders under- been recommended for release. to the Senate Judiciary Committee going the treatment is 15 to change the 1994 sexually violent percent, "That may not be the case by which compared with 68 percent for those next year's legislative session," Stopredator law, was upheld last the U.S. Supreme Court. not receiving the same treatment, vall said. "Changing that law at that year by The committee took no action on she said.

point in time would be troubling either bill. Stovall also urged the committee from both a constitutional and pracUnder Stovall's first proposal, a to make changes in the sexual tical perspective." judge could make chemical castra- predator law. She said Illinois and She wants to create a four step tion a condition of probation for North Dakota have similar laws process that includes five years of convicted sex offenders and for and a half dozen other state legisla- conditional release during which the those being paroled from prison. tures are considering it. person must adhere to a treatment The treatments involve weekly The law allows the state to con- plan.

The bill also establishes a lower injections of a drug commonly fine a sexual offender for treatment burden of proof for committing a known as Depo Provera to lower through civil commitment, even person and removes the requiretestosterone to pre-puberty levels. after the offender finishes a prison ment of a unanimous jury decision. Stovall said the person receiving term. Since the law's enactment, 15 The chemical castration bill is SB the treatments would pay the $40 men have been designated as 650; the sexual predator bill is SB weekly cost of the injections. predators.

They are held in a sepa- 671. Bills are available on the But Stovall cautioned: "No study rate wing of the Larned Correc- Kansas government Internet site at: nor any expert would declare such tional Mental Health Facility. http://www.ink.org/public/ a treatment guarantees no sex Stovall said the day will come From Page 11A Transportation Committee who hosted Goldin's visit to Kansas. The increases of about $900 million amount to about 5 percent of the overall budget for the space station, Goldin said, well beneath the 15 percent mark that has typically doomed projects in the past. Most of the increases are tied to improvements that enhance crew safety, he said.

Brownback said "we'll put 'em through their paces" in keeping an eye on costs, but that doesn't mean NASA is losing support on Capitol Hill. "It is about looking to the future," Brownback said. "This is an adminis trator that does everything he can with every dollar." Goldin is held in such high regard that he has headed NASA for six years now, "which is like living to be 150 years old," Brownback said. "Most people just don't last that long." Goldin's self-described "new NASA" operates with the motto "faster, better, cheaper," and the Pathfinder mission shows the philosophy can be successful. The mission cost less to complete than the movie "Titanic," and captured the imagination of the nation.

Similarly cost -conscious measures are: being implemented in the construction of the space station, Goldin said. The Cosmosphere's Space Works subsidiary recently completed MR. FINDLEY GOLDIN From Page 11A It was the day before his 65th birthday, and his calendar was filled with hobby and travel plans for after his anticipated retirement in June. On Friday, associates remembered his compassion for the unfortunate and the way that led to a lifetime of action aimed at making their lives better. "He lived from that emotive, emotional, passionate side of him," said Bishop Fritz Mutti of the Kansas West Conference.

"It was his gift." Mutti recalled how working on a missions project in Guatemala sparked Mr. Findley's passion for helping others. He also served in missions projects in Western Samoa and Cuba. It was Mr. Findley, Mutti said, who organized a team to go to Los Angeles after the riots in 1993.

Not only was it the first United Methodist team to respond, but it also spawned the Shalom Zone concept in which congregations work to renew their neighborhoods, one square block at a time. He was a founder of the United Methodist Western Kansas MexicanAmerican Ministries, and served as trustee of Lydia Patterson Institute, a secondary school for disadvantaged American and Mexican youths in El Paso, Texas. The Rev. Charles Winkler, Wichita District superintendent of the United Methodist Church and colleague of Mr. Findley's since the two of them joined the conference in the 1960s, said he will remember his friend for seeking justice for "the least, the lost and people on the edges." Mr.

Findley's son Kevin said that the family never knew who would be at the Thanksgiving table. His father invited church members who had no family, exchange students even an ex-convict to break bread. Mr. Findley called himself "the bass Shawn Smith, 11, a student at astronaut Steve Hawley speak Hawley, a Kansas native, visited a Soyuz trainer that astronauts will use in preparation for working at the space station. It would have cost NASA $2 million to get a similar trainer from Russia, Goldin said, but with an attitude" in the choir at University United Methodist Church in Wichita.

He loved that church, which he had served in the 1970s, said the Rev. Gayla Rapp, University's pastor. He respected its people for their self sufficiency, she said, and often reminded them that it is not only the pastor who is in ministry but the congregation, too. And he didn't hesitate to speak out if he agreed or disagreed with a statement that Rapp, his pastor, made in a service. But for all of his devotion to his work pastoring churches in Douglass, Rock, Johnson, Hutchinson a and Wichita, then serving as an administrator he also had time for his family and friends.

"For me, Wayne embodied the best in a person who was a pastor, a prophet, a father, a husband, a grandfather and a friend," Rapp said. "He knew how to balance all of that in his life, and I admired that in him." Mr. Findley is survived by his wife, Joy Rae; sons, W. Douglas Jr. of Dallas, Stephen of Evansville, Kevin of Wichita; a daughter, Stacy Michelle Steele of Maize; brother, Warren of Dallas; and nine grandchildren.

A memorial service for Mr. Findley will be at 11 a.m. today at University United Methodist Church. Memorials have been established with University United Methodist Church and the endowment fund of the Lydia Patterson Institute. Hillside Funeral Home West is in charge of arrangements.

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and officials from Wyandotte County succeeded in gaining passage of a bill they said was necessary to attract the NASCAR track to Kansas. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to Gov. Bill Graves, who supports the project. Bond, -Overland Park, was among 27 senators who voted in favor of the legislation. Bond said Friday that he did not consider abstaining from voting on the bill because of the company's account.

State law does not prohibit a legislator from voting on legislation affecting a business, even if he has a direct interest in it. There has been no allegation that Bond benefited di- Monty Wichita Eagle School, claps while listening to and Space Center in Hutchinson. administrator Dan Goldin. and gave a lecture to Lawrence area to students Friday night. Stan Finger can be reached at 268- 6437 or she had to.

"We're getting closer to the end," she said. The prosecuting attorneys said the information Garrison read from the Kansas Criminal Code Protection Handbook was not prejudicial. The judge agreed, saying the definitions were accurate. If sentenced to death, Kleypas will be the first since the state reinstituted capital punishment in 1994. BRING THE LOOK OF THE OUTSIDE INSIDE.

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Bond is a vice president of the bank and a member of its board of directors. He and his wife are stockholders in its holding company. In early February, critics of the project began circulating a letter that made allegations about Bond, Bond's bank and the project. Bond has called the letter "scurrilous," and its circulation angered him. When a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter approached him, Bond said he would sue the newspaper if the reporter wrote a story containing the letter's allegations.

When an Associated Press reporter mentioned the letter, Bond again reacted strongly, informing him that he had threatened to sue the newspaper. On Feb. 14, during a news conference, a third reporter asked Bond whether there would be competition to provide bond underwriting and other services for ISC. Bond said, "I think it's a crappy question." The Kansas City Kansan news paper published a story about consultants and others, including bank, providing services to the corporation in its Thursday edition. Bond said his bank's role has been public knowledge for weeks because Wyandotte County officials have disclosed it.

"I don't know anything about the account," Bond said Friday. The financing for the $252 million speedway project includes $107 million in bonds issued by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan. Unified government officials want to have the bonds paid off years, but state law limits the payoff to 20 years. The bill changes state law to allow the longer payoff. After the bonds are sold, ISC plans to set up a general operating account, preferably in a Wyandotte County bank, unified government officials told the Kansan.

Grant Lynch, an ISC vice president, told the Kansan the company wanted to set up an account quickly to handle funds before the bond sale. He said Guaranty and another bank indicated interest, and the company chose Guaranty, without taking bids. Guaranty has about $112 million in assets, and unified government. officials told the newspaper they expect ISC to establish its regular, operating account in a larger bank. The bill will require competitive bids.

CAPITOL ROUNDUP ts. Dental bill on its way to Senate consideration LEGISLATURE '96 TOPEKA The House on Friday Friday a resolution requiring Kansas' approved a bill designed to settle a attorney general to file a lawsuit dispute among dentists, dental hy- against Nebraska in the long simgienists and dental assistants. mering feud between the two states The 76-45 vote sent the bill to the over water in the Republican River. Senate. House members had debated The committee voted 90 to send it and given it first-round approval the resolution to the full Senate, Thursday.

which is expected to approve it next Dentists and dental assistants want week. TIL authority for assistants to clean peo- The resolution would require Atple's teeth above the gum line. Hy- torney General Carla Stovall to tile a gienists, who are allowed to perform lawsuit seeking to force Nebraska to the procedure, have objected. comply with terms of a 1943 compact and to recover damages for past Committee endorses shortages of water flowing into Republican River lawsuit Kansas from Nebraska. The House has already approved it, The Senate Ways and Means Com- and it does not require GoV.

Bill mittee unanimously endorsed on Graves' approval. WOT DUI From Page 11A eligible to get his driver's license back. If he is caught driving without the sticker anytime after May, Yost warned, it will constitute a probation violation and he will be thrown in jail for a year. Yost gave a box of stickers to the DUI Victim Center of Kansas. Offenders who are ordered to display the stickers will have to buy 9t them from the victims' group for $10.

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