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                    SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
        PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE
                 SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

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[The following is an advertisement for distribution by KCPL on
internal bulletin boards and for publication in local and
regional newspapers.]

[text of a letter to Drue Jennings]

     Drue Jennings
     Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
     Kansas City Power & Light Company
     
     Dear Drue,
     
     We support you in your continuing efforts to bring the
     KCPL/UtiliCorp merger to fruition.  The growth
     potential and long-term benefits of this union, we
     believe, would be more realistic than what Western
     Resources is proposing.
     
     This letter is being signed by employees of KCPL to
     show our support of you and our merger with UtiliCorp.
     We offer to do anything we can to get the truth out to
     the employees, the shareholders and the public.
     
                              The KCPL Team
     
     (The surrounding signatures represent just some of the
     many employees volunteering to support the
     KCPL/UtiliCorp merger.)

[end of letter to Drue Jennings]

                           [KCPL logo]

            Our employees have signed their support.
                       Now it's your turn.
 Vote YES to the KCPL/UtiliCorp merger on the WHITE proxy card.

[end of advertisement piece]