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               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                
                         SCHEDULE 14D-1
                                
                                
                       (Amendment No. 60)
                                
                                
                     Tender Offer Statement
(Pursuant to Section 14(d)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
                                
                                
               Kansas City Power & Light Company 
                   (Name of Subject Company)
                                
                    Western Resources, Inc.
                            (Bidder)
                                
                Common Stock, Without Par Value
                 (Title of Class of Securities)
                                
                            48513410
             (CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)
                                
                       John K. Rosenberg
          Executive Vice President and General Counsel
                    Western Resources, Inc.
                       818 Kansas Avenue
                      Topeka, Kansas 66612
                     Phone:  (913) 575-6300
                                
       (Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone
       Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
                                
                                
                                
                           Copies to:
                                
                        Neil T. Anderson
                      Sullivan & Cromwell
                        125 Broad Street
                    New York, New York 10004
                         (212) 558-4000
                                
                        William S. Lamb
             LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
                      125 West 55th Street
                    New York, New York 10019
                         (212) 424-8000
                                
                                
                                
This Amendment No.60 amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on
Schedule 14D-1 (the "Schedule 14D-1"), originally filed by Western Resources,
Inc., a Kansas corporation ("Western Resources"), on July 8, 1996 relating to
the exchange offer disclosed therein to exchange all of the outstanding Shares
for shares of Western Resources Common Stock upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Prospectus, dated July 3, 1996, and the related
Letter of Transmittal.  Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall
have the meanings set forth in the Schedule 14D-1.


Item 11.  Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

     Item 11 is hereby amended and supplemented by adding thereto the
following:

(a)(145)    Employee update and press release issued  on or about December 9,
            1996.
                             SIGNATURE

     After due inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify
that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and
correct.


                                                WESTERN RESOURCES, INC.

Date     December 9, 1996                       By   /s/ JERRY D. COURINGTON  
                                                         Jerry D. Courington,
                                                         Controller














































                        INDEX TO EXHIBITS


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Exhibit No.                     Description                           Pages   

(a)(145)               Employee update and press release                 1     
                       issued on or about December 9, 1996.                    
                   










































           
                                     Exhibit No. (a)(145)

The following employee update and press release was issued on or about
December 9, 1996:

                      WESTERN RESOURCES ANNOUNCES RESULTS
                               OF EXCHANGE OFFER
     
        TOPEKA, Kansas, December 9, 1996 (7:15 a.m. CST) -- Western 
     Resources (NYSE:WR) today announced that 47.6 percent or 29.5 million 
     of the outstanding common shares of Kansas City Power & Light Company 
     (NYSE:KLT) had been tendered to Western Resources by the previously 
     scheduled 5 p.m. EST December 6 expiration date.
        The exchange offer has been extended to 5 p.m. EST December 13, 
     1996.
        Merger discussions between the companies continue.
                                -30-
     
        Western Resources (NYSE: WR) is a full-service, diversified energy 
     company with total assets of more than $6 billion. Its utilities, KPL 
     and KGE, operating in Kansas and Oklahoma, provide natural gas service 
     to approximately 650,000 customers and electric service to 
     approximately 600,000 customers. Through its unregulated subsidiaries, 
     Westar Energy, Westar Security, Westar Capital, and The Wing Group, a 
     full range of energy and energy-related products and services are 
     developed and marketed in the continental U.S., and offshore.
        For more information about Western Resources and its operating 
     companies, visit us on the Internet at http://www.wstnres.com.
     
                                                      

This employee update/news release is neither an offer to exchange nor a
solicitation of an offer to exchange shares of common stock of KCPL. Such
offer is made solely by the Prospectus dated July 3, 1996, and the related
Letter of Transmittal, and is not being made to, nor will tenders be accepted
from or on behalf of, holders of shares of common stock of KCPL in any
jurisdiction in which the making of such offer or the acceptance thereof would
not be in compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdictions
where securities, blue sky or other laws require such offer to be made by a
licensed broker or dealer, such offer shall be deemed to be made on behalf of
Western Resources, Inc. by Salomon Brothers Inc or one or more registered
brokers or dealers licensed under 
the laws of such jurisdiction.