JOHN McCUISH, CHAIRMAN
WM. LJUNGDAHL, COMMISSIONER
MARC. BOSS, COMMISSIONER

 

BERT E. MITCHNER,
DIRECTOR OF REVENUE

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VERNON C. ROSENSTAHL, ATTORNEY
FRED HORN, SECRETARY

 

STATE OF KANSAS ;
STATE COMMISSION OF REVENUE AND TAXATION
TOPEKA

March 22, 1941

Dre Forrest C. Allen
Basketball and Baseball Coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

This letter is in regard to our prolific scoring basket-
ball center of Seneca Public High, Alton Wiley.

Lauretta has shown me a copy of the letter and clippings
sent by Bernard Kampert, Seneca druggist and former K. U-
football player. You also have received copies of the publi-
city given this young man by the Courier Tribune and sent to
the Kansas City Star by the Courier. As you know, Seneca won ~
the district tournament, also their conference title, but lost

. in the regional meet at Holton. The Seneca team has been very

mich a one-man team with Wiley, standing a full six inches

above everyone else, being fed the ball whereupon he gently
places it in the basket with hardly any opposition. This is
undoubtedly the reason for his high score of over three hundred
points this year. The young fellow is only seventeen years old,
parents of medium financial status, who will be able to partially
help him in the University and perhaps will take care of all of
his expenses if approached in the right manner. As to his
scholastic rating in high school, you will find it quite average.
The Superintendent of Schools, J. E. Bowers, has been pampering
the young fellow, granting special privileges in his behalf for
the last three years because of his basketball playing. A
characteristic of the boy that is quite predominent is a con-
tinuous twitching of the muscles in his facee As I understand
it, this was caused by a minor attack of infantile paralysis
when he was quite younge He is highly nervous, agreesive in
speech but lags a little in performance.

Now I will tell you the reason for the Seneca High team
not being able to attend the Oklahoma A. & Me game. We have
e peculiar situation in Seneca. We have a superintendent of
schools (named above) who is violently disliked by everyone
in the community except members of the school board. He has
been rehired for another year because of a majority of one vote
on the school board, his votes being from individuals who have