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               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                
                         SCHEDULE 14D-1
                                
                                
                       (Amendment No. 65)
                                
                                
                     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.65 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)(153)    Employee update and press release issued on February 6,
            1997.
                            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     February 6, 1997                       By   /s/ JERRY D. COURINGTON  
                                                         Jerry D. Courington,
                                                         Controller

                        INDEX TO EXHIBITS


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(a)(153)          Employee update and press release                     1
                  issued on February 6, 1997.















































                                                 Exhibit No. (a)(153)

The following employee update and press release was issued by Western
Resources, Inc. on February 6, 1997:

                              JOINT NEWS RELEASE
     
                            KCPL, WESTERN RESOURCES 
                             CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS
     
                      TENDER OFFER EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7
     
        KANSAS CITY, Missouri, and TOPEKA, Kansas, February 6, 1997
(7 a.m. CST) -- Kansas City Power & Light Company (NYSE:KLT) and Western
Resources, Inc. (NYSE:WR) said today that substantive merger negotiations are
continuing between the two companies.
        As a result of the positive dialogue between the companies and the
complexity of negotiations, Western Resources is extending the expiration date
of its tender offer to 5 p.m. EST February 7, 1997.
        As of 5 p.m. EST February 5, 1997, 30.3 million shares of KCPL (or
approximately 49 percent of the total outstanding shares) had been tendered to
Western Resources. 
                                          
         This news release/employee update 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.