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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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                   (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement) 
 
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Advertisement published on May 17, 1996 in the Kansas City Star and The Topeka
Capital Journal:
                              [LOGO]
                        WESTERN RESOURCES
                              OFFERS
                              VALUE

               The key to KCPL shareholders can be
                reduced to a single word - VALUE.

                            Price       Current Dividend
Western
Resources'
Offer                         $28.00 (1)          $1.88-2.03 (3)

KCPL                     $23.88 (2)          $1.56

Premium
offered by
Western 
Resources                  17%               20%-30%

                       The choice is clear.
                          Choose Value.
                    Choose Western Resources.

                 Vote AGAINST the UtiliCorp/KCPL
                  merger on the BLUE proxy card.

      For more information, call Georgeson & Company, Inc.,
                 assisting us, at 1-800-223-2064.

(1) The Western Resources offer provides $28.00 worth of Western Resources
common stock per KCPL share as long as Western Resources' share price is
between $28.43 and $30.77.  (2) KCPL closing share price on April 12, 1996,
the last trading day before the public announcement of the Western Resources
Offer.  (3) Based on current indicated annual dividend of $2.06.  The dividend
range is an equivalent per share amount based upon the Western Resources Offer
current exchange ratio.

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 on these
securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration  or qualification under the securities laws of
any such state.

Advertisement published on May 17, 1996 in the Wichita Eagle:

                              [LOGO]
                        WESTERN RESOURCES
                              OFFERS
                              VALUE

               The key to KCPL shareholders can be
                reduced to a single word - VALUE.

                            Price       Current Dividend
Western
Resources'
Offer                         $28.00 (1)          $1.88-2.03 (3)

KCPL                     $23.88 (2)          $1.56

Premium
offered by
Western 
Resources                  17%               20%-30%

            The key to KGE customers is - LOWER RATES.
                 $100 million over ten years. (4)

                       The choice is clear.
                          Choose Value.
                    Choose Western Resources.

                 Vote AGAINST the UtiliCorp/KCPL
                  merger on the BLUE proxy card.

      For more information, call Georgeson & Company, Inc.,
                 assisting us, at 1-800-223-2064.

(1) The Western Resources Offer provides $28.00 worth of Western Resources
common stock per KCPL share as long as Western Resources' share price is
between $28.43 and $30.77.  (2) KCPL closing share price on April 12, 1996,
the last trading day before the public announcement of the Western Resources
Offer.  (3) Based on current indicated annual dividend of $2.06.  The dividend
range is an equivalent per share amount based upon the Western Resources Offer
current exchange ratio.  (4) Western Resources' proposed annual rate reduction
of $10 million as part of its merger plan, $100 million over the ten years
after the merger, in addition to the rate reductions already proposed.

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
statements 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 on
these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would
be unlawful prior to registration  or qualification under the securities laws
of any such state.