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Linda Croman, Shawnee sophomore representing Watkins Hall, is congratulated by friends after winning KU's "Best Dressed Coed" contest. See story, page 3.
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A student newspaper serving KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, December 12, 1967
Nichols not alarmed about budget cuts
By Tim Jones and Monte Mace Kansan Staff Reporters
Thomas R. Buckman, director of KU libraries, will leave KU to direct Northwestern University's libraries beginning Aug. 1, 1938.
Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of finance, said he is not alarmed by the proposed cuts in next year's University budget made by James Bibb, Kansas budget director.
Nichols added that if the cuts are kept KU will be greatly underfunded.
Buckman will go to Northwestern
Buckman, who came to KU in 1956 as head of library acquisitions, has been director of libraries since 1661. He spent last year on a leave of absence to head the International Relations
office of the American Library Association.
After completing his B.A. at the University of the Pacific, Buckman received M.A. and B.S. degrees in library science from the University of Minnesota.
At KU
At KU he has filled a faculty fellowship in international studies; a Ford Foundation international development grant for study of book publishing, book distribution and libraries in Africa; a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a KU Graduate School travel grant for studies in Sweden and England.
A committee has been appointed to search for a new director of libraries, said Francis H. Heller, acting provost.
The budget proposal is preliminary and it is not known for sure if the cuts will be kept until the governor announces his budget late in January.
The Board of Regents request was trimmed after a budget hearing in Topeka in late November. The cut includes cuts of $898,431 in KU's operating budget and $1,288,600 for capital improvements—new buildings.
"In the past the state has usually found a way to support the University adequately.
Nichols said if the cut in the capital improvements is kept it will affect the construction of a new space technology building and a state geological survey building.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has offered $1.8 million for the space technology building with the University to put up $355,000. The University or state was to provide $750,000 for construction of the geological survey building.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wesoe has said if the University cannot raise the money for the space building, NASA will withdraw the grant.
Bibb said revenue collections
are higher but are not enough to support all the increases. He said Gov. Robert B. Docking has asked departments in his administration to keep increases to a minimum and take a careful, hard look at new proposals. Bibb said most new proposals were removed.
Docking had asked for a budget in the "austere but adequate tradition" of his administration.
Nichols said he is hopeful the governor will restore cuts made in Bibb's budget proposal. He said he doesn't believe the proposed cuts will go through.
"It's essential to live within the resources of the state," he said, "but I hope the governor's budget will locate funds to restore the cuts."
Bibb said the governor is required by law to present a balanced budget to the Legislature.
"You add up the tax and other revenues and then subtract the proposed expenditures," Bibb said. "If there are leftover expenditures you have to start cutting."
Buckman will succeed Jens Nylholm, who is retiring after serving at Northwestern since 1944. An $11.6 million library is under construction at Northwestern to complement the university's Deering Library.
"As Eisenhower's budget bureau director, Maurice Stans, said, "Budgeting is the science of distributing dissatisfaction uniformly." Bibb said.
Great Britain took V-2's from U.S. ship, prof says
By Janet Snyder
Kansan Staff Reporter
Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology, was actively involved in the discovery of German V-2 rockets in Europe during World War II.
The first of these rockets were turned over to the British.
Early in 1945, Leone said, the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), of which he was a member, "came across one completely assembled V-2 rocket and components of about seven others" north of Bavaria.
Leone used the principal competitor for the weapon was England. The British had "a sincere wish to get the weapon" since the Germans bombed them with the rocket during the war.
There was a "great stir to get these back to the U.S." Leone said.
"We loaded the weapons on railroad flat cars and they were taken by secret route to Antwerp, Belgium, where they were put on an American freighter and headed for the U.S.
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"Before we could get out of the English Channel, a British cruiser was dispatched to turn the ship into the port of Southampton, England."
The cruiser was dispatched because this was "still a highly secret operation" and signals couldn't be used. Leone said.
It was sought the British should get the first of the rockets because they were bombed by them, so "some of the weapons were loaded off" at Southampton.
About the time the rockets were unloaded at Southampton, CIOS came across components for over 90 V-2's in Bavaria, which had been removed from the Peenemunde proving grounds in northern Germany, Leone said.
Leone said his job during the war was Deputy Chief of Technical Intelligence of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance for the European Theater.
His primary responsibility was to make scientific and technical investigations of all German research labs and factories that manufactured or worked on war materials.
CIOS also discovered an enclave in Bavaria with a large number of German rocket experts. Since Britain got the first V-2's "we felt the U.S. was entitled to its find of weapons."
(At that time, the rockets were considered to be monstrously large weapons, Leone said.)
Leone said many of the German scientists wanted to come to the U.S. to work on rocket progress, but when they found Britain and Russia also wanted See Britain, page 11.
For a short time, every available flat car and tank retriever-type of trailer was used to evacuate the V-2's to America.
B&G decorates Chancellor's tree
-Kansan photo by Jerry Bean
INFUNDAMENTAL
—Kansas photo by Jerry Beat
OH TANNENBAUM!
This Christmas tree was erected Monday in the Strong Hall Rotunda. Buildings and Grounds men first completely fireproofed the tree, then mounted and balanced it. The final step was to put it up in Strong and decorate it.
The Buildings and Grounds men had a tree trimming party, and the fragrance of Christmas has been added to the rotunda of Strong Hall at KU.
An 18-foot Scottish pine was erected on a rotating stand today by a B and G crew. The tree, approximately 40 years old, was cut from the grounds of old Robinson Gymnasium, which recently was razed to provide room for a humanities building.
The tree has been fireproofed and decorated. It contains about 225 lights and 175 ornaments, several strands of silver rope and an infinite number of tinsel icicles.
Although there are no presents under the tree, several people seemed impressed as they passed. Some seemed downright shocked, as they viewed its size or ducked a passing ornament.
"The biggest problem we have in putting the tree up is getting it in the stand and balanced," said Harry Buchholz, superintendent of the physical plant. "An ordinary tree is just put in a stand and fixed so it stands up straight. The Strong tree has to be balanced so it can rotate without falling over and hurting someone. It takes quite a few man hours to get the tree ready. We had several men over in Strong yesterday and several more over there today."
How long a tree has been put in Strong is unknown.
"We've been doing it for years and years," Buchholz said. "I suppose the tradition started one year when someone just put a tree up in Strong. But now, it is a tradition and we put it up every year."
Another problem besides getting the tree up is keeping it decorated. Each year the "tradition" of bulb and ornament snatching continues.
This year, if some of the lights remain, the tree will be turned on from 6 a.m. until midnight each day up to Christmas.