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KANSAS CITY POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
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(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)
WESTERN RESOURCES, INC.
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This ad runs in the following publications:
Date Inserted : May 11, 1996, The Kansas City Star
May 12, 1996, The Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
The Topeka Capital Journal, The Wichita Eagle
May 13, 1996, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 14, 1996, The Topeka Capital Journal, The Wichita Eagle,
The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Leawood Outlook
May 15, 1996, Olathe Daily News, Independence Examiner, Blue
Springs Examiner, Clay & Platte Dispatch, Liberty Tribune,
Wednesday Magazine, Lee's Summit Journal
May 16, 1996, Louisburg Herald, Osawatomie Graphic
May 17, 1996, Kansas City Call, Kansas City Globe, Sun
Publications, Kansas City Business Journal, Kansas City
Jewish Chronicle
ATTENTION KCPL SHAREHOLDERS
FOCUS
ON THE
FACTS.
Recently you've been inundated with information about the proposed
UtiliCorp/KCPL merger and the Western Resources offer to combine with KCPL.
The key to KCPL shareholders can be reduced to a single word - VALUE.
Premium offered by
Western Resources' Offer KCPL Western Resources
Price $28.00* $23.88** 17%
Current Dividend $1.88-2.03*** $1.56 20%-30%
The choice is clear. Choose Value. Choose Western Resources.
Vote X AGAINST the UtiliCorp/KCPL
merger on the BLUE proxy card.
For more information, call Georgeson & Company, Inc., assisting us,
at 1-800-223-2064.
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WESTERN RESOURCES
*The Western Resources Offer provides $28.00 of Western Resources common stock
per KCPL share as long as Western Resources' share price is between $28.43 and
$30.77. **KCPL closing share price on April 12, 1996, the last trading day
before the public announcement of the Western Resources Offer. ***Based on
current indicated annual dividend of $2.06.
Western Resources has filed exchange offer materials with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and intends to make its offer directly to shareholders of
KCPL as soon as its registration statement has been declared effective by the
S.E.C.
A registration statement relating to the Western Resources securities referred
to in these materials has been filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission but has not yet become effective. Such securities may not be sold
nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement
becomes effective. These materials shall not constitute an offer to sell or
the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these
securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of
any such state.
