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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 19, 1967
Shifting tax complicates educational finances
By Tim Jones Kansan Staff Reporter
The central problem facing public education in Kansas is shifting financial support from local property taxes to.state income taxes, James S. Rose, assistant professor of education at KU, said.
He said the relationship between property value and income is deteriorating and property is not necessarily indicative of the ability to pay taxes.
With public schools being largely supported by property taxes this becomes a problem. Rose said this especially affects cities where there is not much property evaluation, but there are more students.
In rural areas where individual property valuation is high, there are fewer students.
As a result, the amount of support per pupil ranges
from $350 in some school districts to $1,800 in others, Rose said. The average per pupil support in Kansas is $530 compared with $550 for the nation, he said.
"Kansas ranks relatively high in per capita support of highways and police departments, but low in support of education," Rose said.
The budget problem further is complicated by a 104 per cent limit set on schools for increasing their budget each year. This means there can be no more than a four per cent increase from the previous year.
This increases the inequality between school districts because a school having a per capita support of $400 can only exceed that amount by $16 per pupil each year, while a school spending $1,800 can increase its budget $72 per pupil.
cation Association (NEA) at the request of the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA) Robert McClure, director of the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Illinois, evaluated the state's educational system.
His conclusions, presented to KSTA, Gov. Robert B. Docking and the Kansas Legislature, showed the state needed more equalization. McClure said that poorer districts should receive more money and that resources were not adequate.
In a recent survey conducted by the National Edu-
The state supplies approximately 33 per cent of school budgets, local taxes 59 per cent and the federal government 8 per cent.
He said one plan under consideration is the Alkhouse Foundation Plan.
Air force Jet Bomber crashes; 8 persons are dead, 400 rescued
TUCSON, Ariz. —(UPI)— At least eight persons perished in flames when an Air Force jet fighter-bomber, freshly loaded with fuel, faltered on takeoff and crashed into a residential area. The crash started a roaring fire that engulfed a supermarket and three homes.
Witnesses said a massive ball of flame flared in the skies at dusk when the plane crashed only seconds after taking off from a nearby air base.
The death toll kept mounting and four hours after the tragic accident authorities reported recovering eight bodies—two from
one of the homes destroyed by flames and six from the market.
The roof of the market collapsed and its steel girders, made molten by flames became a twisted mass which may have trapped more victims.
Firemen said it would probably be 24 to 48 hours before they could cut through the twisted steel and determine whether there were any other dead.
The dead in the burned-out house were a small girl and a boy about 18.
The two men aboard the plane ejected safely before it plunged into the shopping center which is
located only blocks from the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,
They were based at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nev., and were identified as Capt. Gary L. Hughes, a navigator-bombardier whose parents live at Mt. Shasta, Calif., and Flight Lt. Jack R. Hamilton, a Canadian exchange instructor pilot.
The Air Force said the cause of the crash was undetermined and a board of appointed officers would investigate.
The crash took place at 5:40 p.m., MST 7:40 p.m., EST when the Cactus Shopping Center was crowded during the evening rush.
Kansas City police officer to coordinate KU training
Lt. Maynard L. Brazeal, training officer and instructor of police subjects for the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, has been appointed to replace James S. Kline as coordinator of police training for the Governmental Research Center at KU.
The plane, an F4D Phantom jet, was on a training mission from Nellis with three others bound for Dallas, Tex.
Kline has resigned effective Jan. 1, to become director of the newly-built police training academy for the North Central Texas Council of Governments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to William H. Cape, associate director of the Center.
A 19-year veteran of Kansas City police work, Brazeal has specialized in training since 1956, when he was assigned to the police academy there as an instructor.
His duties have included training instruction in first aid as an American Red Cross First Aid instructor-trainer, and in such specialized police subjects as firearms, patrol procedure, criminal investigation, criminal law, report writing and classification, and physical instruction.
In 1963, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant of police and training officer.
Brazeal, a native of Larned, attended high school in Kansas City. He is a Naval veteran of World
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War II and has attended colleges and universities in connection with police work. He holds a certificate of radiography from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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In 1961, Brazeal received the American Red Cross certificate of merit award and the Citizen of the Week award from radio station WDAF for saving a human life.
There were 400 rescue workers on the scene including firemen, policemen and Air Force personnel.
Last Kansan
Today's Kansan will be the last one of 1967, as the university partially shutdown for the Christmas recess on Wednesday. We will resume publication on Thursday, Jan. 4.
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