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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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The following Employee Update was released on June 27, 1996:

June 27, 1996 

UPDATED GUIDE TO WESTERN RESOURCES/KCPL MERGER BOOKLET AVAILABLE

   An informational booklet is being mailed to all KCPL shareholders with 
   details of our improved June 17 offer. The booklet shows why Western 
   Resources believes it is providing superior value in its proposal and 
   provides facts and figures about the benefits we have advertised.
     
   Watch for a copy of the booklet, which is being sent to all Western 
   Resources employees through interoffice mail.
     
   In addition to the information provided in the booklet, you may call 
   1-800-477-6077 to hear excerpts of the June 17 news conference where 
   details of the improved offer were discussed by John Hayes.
     
   If you have questions or comments concerning the proposed merger, please 
   let us know. You may call Starline at 1-800-621-4282 or from your work 
   location at 1-913-575-8180.  Please leave your name and work location.
     
     
     
   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 Securities and Exchange Commission. 
     
   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 law of any such state.