WASHINGTON (AP) — President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s family wants a memorial in the nation’s capital redesigned, saying the current plans overemphasize his humble Kansas roots and neglect his accomplishments in World War II and the White House.

Architect Frank Gehry has proposed a memorial park framed by large metal tapestries with images of Eisenhower’s boyhood home in Abilene.  In the park, a statue of “Ike” as a boy would seem to marvel at what would become of his life, leading the Allied forces and becoming president. From the White House, he integrated schools and the military, and created NASA and interstate highways. Additional sculpture elements would depict Eisenhower as general and president.

Anne Eisenhower, one of the president’s granddaughters, sent a formal objection to the National Capital Planning Commission on Tuesday on behalf of the family. Still, she noted Gehry is a talented architect.

“What one has to say is he’s missed the message here,” she told The Associated Press. “The mandate is to honor Eisenhower, and that is not being done in this current design. Or, shall we say, it is being done in such a small scale in relation to the memorial that it is dwarfed.”

National Capital Planning Commission Executive Director Marcel Acosta said in a short statement the panel “appreciates the comments provided by the Eisenhower family.”

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which hired Gehry, said they plan to seek final approval of the design in March and hope to break ground this year.

Images of Eisenhower as a general addressing troops before D-Day and as president studying the globe would be represented in stone in “heroic scale,” said Daniel Feil, the project’s executive architect. With all the attention on Gehry’s tapestries, some failed to see other aspects of the memorial, he said.

Feil said he does not expect to make any major changes to Gehry’s design.

The two U-S Senators from Kansas, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, are members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The first election in Kansas under a state law requiring voters to show photo identification appears to have gone smoothly, but officials debated Wednesday whether the sales tax vote in Cimarron, in southwestern Kansas,  was a valid test of the new rule.

Voters in Cimarron overwhelmingly approved a 1.25 percent sales tax to finance a new municipal swimming pool for the community of 2,200 residents.  About 460 people voted, with 18 casting provisional ballots that won’t be counted until the county clerk’s office confirms their eligibility to participate.

Gray County Clerk Bonnie Swartz said most of the voters casting provisional ballots had moved to a new address since they had last voted. Only one person cast a provisional ballot because she didn’t have a valid photo ID, and Swartz said the voter had declined to bring one.

The law took effect Jan. 1, having been enacted at the urging of Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who argued that the measure will prevent voter fraud. Kobach traveled to Cimarron to observe the voting.

Some legislators and even Swartz questioned whether voting in a more populous area would give election officials a better indication of any potential problems. Cimarron has a single polling place, a 4-H building about a quarter of a mile from town, and officials had expected most voters to drive there — with their licenses a valid photo ID under the law.

Last month, the U.S. Justice Department blocked a South Carolina voter ID law.

TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Chamber of Commerce’s political action committee is targeting eight incumbent state senators in Republican primaries this year, and one of the group’s officials said Tuesday that the PAC raised more than $163,000 last year to help finance its efforts.

The Chamber PAC’s targets include Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton. Republican conservatives have been upset with Morris and other senators over a host of issues, including taxes. Jeff Glendening, the chamber’s vice president for political affairs, said the group hopes to replace the incumbents with “free market” challengers.

The chamber’s efforts are significant because the Senate represents the last major stronghold in state government for moderate Republicans. Gov. Sam Brownback has said he’ll stay out of primaries. His fellow conservatives believe ousting several incumbent senators will clear the last significant obstacles to anti-tax, small-government policies.

Glendening said the chamber is concerned about a lack of growth in the number of private sector jobs in Kansas and believes policies backed by Senate leaders are a major factor. All eight incumbents being targeted voted in 2010 to increase the state’s sales tax to help balance the budget.

Morris said he and other GOP senators have tried to take a balanced approach to dealing with the state’s past budget problems. He said the targeted senators have supported pro-business policies, such as phasing out the state’s corporate franchise tax, essentially a fee for the privilege of doing business in Kansas.

Glendening said the other incumbent GOP senators whose challengers received maximum contributions from the Chamber PAC are Pete Brungardt, of Salina; Terrie Huntington, of Fairway; Carolyn McGinn, of Sedgwick; Tim Owens, of Overland Park; Vicki Schmidt, of Topeka; Jean Schodorf, of Wichita, and John Vratil of Leawood.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and the head of Bombardier Business Air say an expansion of the company’s Learjet site in Wichita will create 450 new jobs over the next seven to 10 years.

Bombardier President Steve Ridolfi and Brownback announced plans Tuesday for expansion of the company’s Flight Test Center, new facilities for paint and production, and a new delivery center. The expansion also will include establishment of a Bombardier Center of Excellence of Engineering and Information Technology.

The state is providing $16 million in financial support to go along with $600 million the company is spending to develop the Learjet 85 midsize jet and expand Learjet’s Wichita facility.

Last week The Boeing Co. announced it was closing its Wichita facilities at the end of 2013.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) Bureau of Waste Management today released results of their 2011 Community Recycling Survey.

The study shows that 85 percent of Kansans recycle household waste through curbside and/or drop-off recycling programs.

Bill Bider, Director of the Bureau of Waste Management, compared the results to the last survey in 2005.  The largest improvement in recycling was in plastics which increased from 33 percent participation to 70 percent. The survey also indicated that 35 percent more households were recycling cardboard in 2011 than in 2005, and 33 percent more were recycling magazines.

Additional findings from the survey include:

o 81 percent of households recycle aluminum cans

o 70 percent of households recycle plastics

o 56 percent of households recycle newspapers

o 45 percent of households recycle cardboard

o 44 percent of households recycle other paper

o 96 percent of respondents consider recycling to be important

More than 93 percent of respondents expressed their support for the proper disposal of household hazardous wastes, environmentally sound operations of landfills, and a reduction in illegal dumping.

The 2011 Community Recycling Survey is a comprehensive statewide study that measures and tracks the growth of recycling in Kansas.