The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 14

FROM THE COVER A 14 THE KANSAS CITY 8TAR Friday' July 9 1999 Vt: -ii results start to 1 1 -( on 'I i -y r' V-' -y y- f- I i- Continued from A-1 nityand its cost demand more effi- Finding qualified workers also dent planning and hindered the project The booming Adams said 77 local economy kept manyelectri-Adams suggested the dty audit dans ded up on lucrative private KCPSd and its contractors to make sector construction project die dty ta getting its money's And because of natural disasters 'many of die electricians' on die lee said thedty did die utility streedi project kept getting some streetfigjht in the dtyk outiy- big areas The dty leased the system from those compante So the city bought for $213 million and has been expanding it ever rinc The chy re-' cently paid $17 milUon far the Ms- souri Public Service portion of die system IlieprojofftoaiW start when negodationa with fal-: v7y yy-But Ford Said that wouldn't change'the promised completion schedufev ms told people get this IheykenmtooriiaipThoaiaak add course die neighbor- -v Neighborhoods wfth wood poles for exiking limits get woodpoiesftsD the new light Putting steel pokx in 1 5 sll die neighborhoods probably would lure doubted die prajecnr cost Rad sakL Saving money is one goal of the project The dty already is doing i dutfaacmqileofway 'V-kh Rejdadng all the existing lamps I widi more efficient ones shoiud saw du dty about $25Qff00 a year in operding cost Lee said them fed safe Brooks reid "And it has created a different environment for dope dealemwhpfedless corn-! fetabte under terrent rt-f '-yv It has madq a difference In Blue HOfe safe LinifaSpenc who repre-: sents that east Kansas City neigh-bpfbpod on the Citizen Streetlight Advisory Committee yj: 7-effingridofcdnwisatnuItifac: ered thingr but increased light makes iteasier onthe neighbors and easier on die Spence raaidv better oflen: Oklahoma suffoed devastating tornadoes earlier this year Mississippi was hit hard by a hurricane fa fall piHriijni could make! double time or orertiine on prefects in those states Lee said Many took the opportunity1 leavfog Kansas Oty shorthanded botht Thn teams totaling about 100 calls daily They hare tried to stick dose to the gujddiiies while taking into account concern bend as far as we can bend Lee said percent of die tinw we can make some accommodation to a citizen request by twraking die polek One tweaking took place hi from of Ken Patrick house in the 4700 blockof Merrier Street just arrived and dug a Patrkk said walk out thefront door and therekabig red pole I said not: a pole mowed the is happier rr ahhotihe sdB does-trt much Eke the pofeHefc not coq-vinced his neiiboihood needs more light Patrick said hrid prefer a steel pole to the hideout wood one EvenThomas who saidshe ap- predated the safety die new ligntt provided doestrt care far die wood enpaies in her neighborhood I wL in Adi company ate working veil together aod are committed to finishing die project oh time'- Then there were die tree "Nobody realized how big the tree problem Lee Said dty was reaDy behind on tree-trbn-ming Then have a huge impact on in foe tree service to make sure we don't butcher the said Mike Schoepphei the project cohstruco tion engineer So BO workers will trim about 60000 trees as prn of the project Wotks Department is trying to treat die trees gendy Wire wmUng with die foresters Speqcek only concern is thatriw dkUtsay four years from what besKe1 some lights in the aie out It really took six months to get off fmefeys before they replaced the ground aftervoters passed die she said a -v referendum'-' 'The November 1997 bond issue Clinton Adatfeafonnermembcr called for buying upgrading and of the Citizen StreetUghtAdvisory expanding the city's streetlight Committeewas less optimistic tern Oty lNver light Ca about the delay owned the bulk of the system and The ngimuH of die )no ject: Mlsroiirl Public Service Coi owned and its importance to the cominu-1 per kilowatt hour when the udUty owned the system Ndwj the dty jhqps the utilUy 47 cents jper kifaffc watt hmmMiuouri Public Stfaq offered the dty a rate of 37 cent! The savings is going into bandptqK ment 23i-4435orttnde-mailto 1 i fvrivyHL i ''-i CLUB: -qirvywi'' EXECUTION: i sV rompts protests SMW': rtVK Continued from A-1 CHminal justice Committee Biown-Wite had never beftae seen Condemned prisoner die The vtdfc'Of a former New Yink state tSSOpot the left the deadi dumber Pi se af al -ei -'bi it fc yn Vi fi tit fvl 7 y' HI a i ifftlphe same position as whenshe arrived unwavering support of i the etectric chain But she disputed the affidal state version that Davis suffered a nosebleed during the believe the blood came sew bom die Brown-Waite said had on a whhe shitt and the' blppd suddenly appmred likiea Mot It appeared to! be ruhning AViqtia Sdyudn the prison doctor AUen Lire Davis i wfiio examined Davis after thein mateTlied said the blood appeared in the statek new etectric chair The to bearesultrfatypicalnpsdJeed state last year replaced the 76-year- apart That doesn't account for dri- veways front doews odd plot sizes and other vagaries of real life Officials log about a dozen citizen said Bushk office the Iniddent Catholic htshopa renewed thefreaUferanendfaaUJbroMof -the Rev Thomas Wensld auxiliary bishop of thetchdiocese ofMia-r mi But Brown-Vftite who also is Cariiolic said Church leaders are Susie deal How much wll is cost per season to watch worid-dass racing In Kansas City Kan from the comfort of a suite? And what do you get tor the money? The chart beiow explains the suite options An autopsy found blood in both an9viar nomi3t Bush Said he was satisfied that the new chair worked and that nosebted as a result of his hypier tension! Bush said his thoughts were'also with JohnWeiler whose V-'- 'o -Y- O'Y' J)ONBUMmeAodtedlm: The Inmatecxecuted thurediy AU Lise Davis kflled Nancy Bemad WeUerand herdaiqhfen fa 1982 Wefleclil stater BabsBabta (fromtefoWriterk husband fahm and John Writertwife Barbara appeared befare the news media In StaifceFfe after the exepition -v'r 'yy' mmt underscore the need to stop fining the etectric chafe which he said lawyers far death row inmates use to erind tipeals and dday ex- aqtital punishment fwirihn- -y'j: to stop killing peo- ple VVhetiier an or electric blood" Klein said "The issue' chafe still capital punishment because almost like fe vriietfaer tiiere would be any legal Itk not necereary and It doesnt re- puffing your dbg to steep Brown-jhaitenge that wotdrl dday tfopfgYaPy serve die common good of the citizens of the stale of Florida said commine a death sentence' kmpoO think the chair sends amessage that lethal injection really doesnlt Waite said other than just going silently in tiie niit -done in fouryearSi5 Foffisei4 f'We bid inmate-built relic at Florida State Prison with a sturdier near-replica in part to hold large ln-mates sudi as Davi But lawyers for the condemned argued that tibe state nerer replaced electrical gear and that some of the MAILING LIST Ihosb wanting to get on thig mail ing list are asiked to do so by acy cessing die Wfeb site at '-il wwwJcansasspeedwxycoquxmi or Can 013) 328-3300 yyy enue bond developer equity and state and local incentive Kansas Speedway Coqx may also consider increasing the grandkand capacity for phase 1 The reason again is the level of interest More than 15000 people who have ctmtacted speedway ffifices in search of tickets have been placed on a mailing list Speedway officials project that each person on the list will buy approximately four tickets fa Winston Qip event she said "They have legitimate jobs that they didn't have before" y'yy She speculates that policy-mak- -ers were alarmed by the rising numbers in die late 1980s and eariy 1990s and instituted programs that have beipin to work She pointed to a Philadelphia recreation program that was shut down during budget cuts In the 1980 and then reopened after tax collections and concerns rose The report on the nation's children also found: pregnant wife and two daughters parts are more than 40 years old wbre murdered by Davis in jack- andjnone to frequent failure sohvilleinl982 Democratic Sen RtmKteiivapro- support the death penalty ponent of ledial injection accurate-! Biish sakL execution went ac- ly predicted dut irregularities in coitding to procedureMy heart execution would be goes out fa the husband and father seized upon by lawyers for Thomas ofthe victims Mt WriteiwhO has- Provenzano a condemned killer stffGned for die last 17 scheduled to diethis morning in Athe other states using etectrbcu- tiie samertiudyoaken chair -tionasthe rmlyform of catal Lawyers forProvenzano won a hHmant nm Alqhama Ranrgia and postponement from the! State Nebraska A deadly dose of chemi- Supreme Court after arguing that cals injected into the bloodstream esecutiofr demonstrated die is Used by 22 state electric chair still does not work Duruaykesecutinnwastheftist properiy In plorida In 15 months and the first-'-: Klein said the latest develop- --i Hi I s' new i- 1 i rt-wip rt Continued from A-i1I'l Like foe migfnal policy the draft dress code also states that agernem reserves the right: to irihiw service to -Dean said be and MichaelBate the commission's director of Im- man relations would reviewtho dtaft and discuss it with the Y-' best I can tell tiiey pmtty mudifaoktheadvkxthwegave: them" Dean said The management Initiated the meeting monbets earlier tiiiswedL Bates said there was doifot! -fo our prohibiting the clotiiing line and hairstyles negai tivriy affected African-American think that cleariy the policy has a diqiatate impact on Afticanr he said -v- However Bates said that based" on the comment there was no to ftxms on African- American with the drew 7 codes IteglnaFrieste a volunteer vrith tiie Kansas City Human Rights Commission Bates said a member of tiie commission riic hcM gauge public opinkm about Aiarrimlpiitinn thfBUghnut he dty She also ta' ii former member dftiie Ifispanic Chamber erf Commerce The commission will continue to investigate two complaints filed by an African-Americans vftio were refused entry to the dub because of their hairstyle -Last week the clubk management stated in a fax that only dans to change the dress codeln-dude matiagementk consitfefa-timsto make tiie dress code more restrictive" Since tiie dub qiened the owners have promoted it as a uniijjue experience with a strict dress code on Friday and Saturday nidti- Atiiletic weat jean hat baggy dodiing and untudeed diiits have always been ftnbidden" Some: customers were con- cemed when FUBU clothe dreadlocks and braids were e-cently added to the list jamiah-Khallq a 30-year-old dental student recently was turned away when her dreadlocks did not meet the standard at the nightrinK A duh manager told her the hairstyle was associated with gang Altiioi she doesnt dan toty-turn she welcomed tiie club's change of opinion 1 tar them" she said wondeffiiL is what I wanted to happen I hope that doing it with enlightenment as well not just to say that this is hurting Ixirines 2 The Kansas City Human Riits Commission had at least one complaint about the downtofyn dub last wed Bates said He said he thought that Foes would like to remain on the ccfo-mfadnn- W- she initiated tiie cornier- satkm back to us and really vofelh- tarOy was looking at how they can correct tiie he sakL 2 As ftxwhetiier Fries should hve known die dress code might not meet commission standards Bates said: a lay persott I think flat they want to try to make this an upscale place on Friday and Saturday night and ttypy went too far 7b reach DauinBamenncaB'" (816) 234-7749 or send e-mauto TRACK: Continued from A1 siites from 32 to68-7- that will be built for phase Long-term lease agreements have hem secured for all of the original 32 suite Speedway developers have received hundreds of te-qilests for additional suite Zucker declined fa reveal names ofcompanies that have committed falpurchase suite but she said the companies offer neat mix Some are national some are regional some are locaL Some are companies you have never heard The cost of building the new suites is uncertain but it would be added to the overall price tafe that now stands at $224 million fbf phase I The speedway is being funded by a combination of rev- bot in toiirif widi their members most of whom she sakl favor capital punishment based on piibjicopim: would definitely be needed fa stop someone from a of The Associated Press contributed toy this report V- Amenities inckide priority parking admission tickets (32 tor a lower single 39 for upper single 86 for upper double) program full- service bar wait staff private restroom cfosed circuit television air condffionhig audto system carpet and furniture elevator acces private telephone and access to catering li big League also is planning to hold araceatthetradL 321 percent in 1997 Forty-eight percent of 3-and 4-year-olds were enrolled In presdioal in 1997 lip from 45 percent ayeareariie pardy because of welfare reform that piuhed moth-ers into tiie wok fonx The most dramatic rise was among black children from 45 percent to 55 percent The number of poor youths who received all of their vaednes edged up in 1997 to 71 percent from 69 percent in 1996 abs The American Civil Liberties Ifoion of Ruida balled fbr a halt fa execution Amnesty International quoting eady news reports tiiat said hbod from mouth suites at (die number of prople who are on die mailing list) is totaDy Zucker $aiit ifa- portant We have been very out- tious about puffing our number out Phase 1 plansoureririy call tor grandstand seating of 75000 Phase 2 calls increasing that to 150ff00 Zucker said that phase 1 plans have been updated to increase the number of parking spaces from 250000)65000 The speedway now under con-struction near the intersection of Intentates 70 and 435 was original-ly scheduled to open in 2000 But delays in construction caused by poor weather and since-settled lawsuits have in all probability pushed that date back to 2001 A Winston Cup race will be the crime THE REPORT the entire report issued by the 7 7 Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics is available on the Internet at htqKchidstatgov Most dukfren and teens had diets that needed improvement For lnstanc in 1996 24 percent of children ages 2 to 5 had a good diet UboeNevel double $70000 crown jewd of tire 13-mil tri-oval tradek race offering The Indy Rac- TREND: Statistics amoni and 8 percent had a poor diet The rest needed improvement to meet federal recommendation Those numbers generally got worse for older youth The numbers of 10th- arid 12th-graders who smoked dropped in 1998 after gradually increasing since 1992 But 22 percent of high school seniors and 16 percent of sophomores still smoked The birth rate for girls ages 15 to 17 fell from its peak of 387 live births per 1000 teens in 1991 to Continued from A-l 706000 violent crimes involving cnie re more of these teen There are also fewer teen victims oftrime There were 27 victims for every 1000 people ages 12 to 17 in 197 Thatk down from 44 per 1000 in 1993 the Justice Department said Part of the decline can be traced to 'the overall drop in all types of crime which is tied to the strong economy said Zaha TTherek a lot of kids on the mar BBAD STM wmt i 7".