Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 69
Friday, Jan. 12, 1962
Europeans Welcome Kennedy's Union Speech
LONDON — (UPI) — West Europeans today generally welcomed President Kennedy's state of the union message and closely studied his remarks on trade to determine the American impact on the Common Market.
Typical of the editorial comment here was the reaction of the Daily Telegraph which said the speech was "inspiring but soberly worded."
THE DAILY MAIL SAID "far too much" had been expected of President Kennedy when he took office a year ago but "in spite of this handicap his achievement has been notable."
The Guardian called the message "sober, tough-minded and cautiously progressive."
"The hopes of the world are to a large extent centered on this young romantic figure," the Mail said. "We don't think he will betray them."
There was widespread interest in the President's remarks on the European Common Market.
A spokesman for the six-nation economic bloc in Brussels said "Kennedy's message is an historical act in respect to the relationship between the United States and Europe and also in respect to world trade." He welcomed President Kennedy's appeal for tariff cuts.
THE LONDON DAILY Express, which opposes Britain's entry into the Common Market, criticized these portions of President Kennedy's remarks.
The Daily Herald called the Kennedy message "liberal and calm." The newspaper said it was a "sober" President who reviewed his first 12 months in office and it applauded his support for the United Nations.
The foreign editor of the Daily Mirror said Kennedy "smartly cuffed the British government and called for all-out support for the United Nations." Many Britons are lukewarm toward the world organization.
The influential London Times said the President's speech was not dramatic but added up to "gradual improvement in the quality of American foreign policy and government.
COMMENTING ON Kennedy's "splendor of ideals" remark, the Times editorial concluded:
"It is healthy to think in terms of moral leadership at a time when
America's military strength is becoming less unchallengeable."
In Bonn, West German Government sources said the message proved the United States is willing to assert its "leading role" in the world.
Reapportionment Bill Satisfies K.U. Prof.
A KU professor of political science said today he is very satisfied with the proposed constitutional amendment on reapportionment introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
Walter E. Sandelius, chairman of the state Constitutional Revision Commission, said the proposed amendment "is substantially what we (the commission) recommended."
The amendment introduced yesterday calls for reapportionment of the state Senate so that the larger counties could have up to four Senators. At present no county has more than one Senate seat.
The Senate membership would remain at 40, according to the resolution, meaning that more smaller counties would comprise each district than is the situation at present.
The House membership would remain at 125, with each county guaranteed one seat. The twenty extra seats would continue to be divided among the more populous counties as at present.
The proposal also requires the Legislature to reapportion the Senate every 12 years, beginning in 1963, according to U.S. census figures. If the Legislature does not act, a reapportionment board, composed of the secretary of state, attorney general, and state auditor, would reapportion the Senate.
If the resolution is passed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, it will be voted upon by the people in November.
Sponsoring the proposed amendment were Senator Clark Kuppinger, Prairie Village; Senator Clifford R. Hope Jr., Garden City; Senator William C. Farmer, Wichita; Senator Robert C. Taggart, Topeka; Senator Howard Harper, Junction City; Senator Frank S. Hodge, Hutchinson; and Senator Ernest W. Strahan, Salina. All are Republicans.
"This proposal differs from the commission's mainly in the provision for the reapportionment board," Prof. Sandelius said. "Our proposal had the governor on the reapportionment board rather than the secretary of state."
The commission recommended the amendment at last year's session of the Legislature. It called for automatic and self-enforcing reapportionment of the Legislature.
Gov. John Anderson, in his budget message Tuesday, recommended that the Legislature consider reaportionment because "it would be better for the Legislature to remedy the problem on its own motion."
He was probably referring to two current court actions regarding reapportionment. Four Kansas news-papermen — J. P. Harris, John McCormally, and Peter Macdonald of the Hutchinson News and Ernest W. Johnson of The Olathe News—have introduced a "friend of the court" brief in a reapportionment case before the U.S. Supreme Court. They also have filed a petition in Shawnee County district court asking the court to force the Kansas Legislature to reapportion itself.
Dormitory Rates Increase
Bv Mike Milier
Students living in the five men's residence halls will see a $5 a month increase in their dorm bills effective next fall.
- An increase in the interest rates on student loan agreements by 3/4 of 1 per cent. Mr. Middleton pointed out that, "this is quite a bit on a million dollars or so." Mr. Middleton said this was the greatest one increase.
James G. Middleton, program director of the dormitories, enumerated the major increased operational costs as follows:
The increase is brought about by operational costs plus the need to maintain present standards in various divisions of the halls.
The present rate for room and board is $315 a semester or $630 a year. The $5 a month increase will raise the yearly total to $675.
- An increase of 4 per cent by the Kansas Power & Light Company, which provides the electricity for the dorms, and the Kansas Public Service Co., which provides the gas have effected sizable increases in rates.
- An increase on the cost of replacing furnishings in the dormitories and furnishing new ones. The study lights furnished to some of the JRP residents cost $8 each when the dorm was built; at present the cost of the lamps is $10. The scrubbing machines
- Wages for the students working in the dorms has increased 10 per cent. Mr. Middleton pointed out that the base pay has raised from 60 to 70 cents an hour to 70 to 80 cents.
used by the janitor cost $287 in 1959 and now cost $315. Bed sheets have gone up from $20.80 per dozen to $22 a dozen. A similar increase has occurred in pillow slips.
the last raise on dorm fees five years ago. the salaries of the maintenance personnel have increased.
- The cost of living index has increased in the last five years. Since
THE REACTIONS of the men living in the five men's residence halls, Joseph R. Pearson, Templin, Carruth-O'Leary, Grace Pearson, and Oread, vary from mild to strong disapproval.
"What, more money!"
Merle Pattengill, McPherson sophomore, said, "It seems to me that $365 per semester is an ample amount, considering existing dorm food and study conditions."
Jerry Slayton, Independence, Mo. sophomore said. "It seems to me that each semester brings a rise in the cost of living here. Don't tell me inflation is this critical."
"I DON'T LIKE IT," said Steve Toth, Trenton, N. J., sophomore, "but with costs going up all the time, they have to have the money."
Lance Jessee, Kansas City, Mo. freshman said, "If the cost gets much higher, it will be as high as living in a fraternity house."
Bill Neeley, McPherson sophomore, said. "If the additional rates would provide more funds for better meals, it would be worth the increase."
Some students saw justification in the increase.
The Dean of Women's office reports a possible increase in women's dormitory rates will not be known until the dormitory contracts come out next month.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today and tonight. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow with some snow mostly along the northern border. Warmer today and tomorrow with the highs today in the 30s and lows tonight in the 20s.
Bert Coan
NCAA Questions Bert Coan's Trip
By Fred Zimmerman
The most wanted student on the University of Kansas campus today is a soft-spoken junior from Pasadena, Tex.
He is Elroy Bert Coan, who without his football equipment can run the 100-yard dash in :09.6. Wearing the equipment, he can run well enough to inspire several football coaches to call him a "potential Heisman trophy winner."
The speedy halfback came to KU under a cloud of illegal recruiting that involved "excessive entertainment." As a consequence, the University was placed on athletic probation for a year.
That was in October 1960. The University is no longer on probation, but Coan is again under the cloud of "excessive entertainment," this time for visiting the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League last week.
COAN WAS seen in the presence of Charger officials at the AFL All-Star game. Somebody coupled this news with a statement Coan made a few days earlier that he was considering an offer to play for the Chargers next season, instead of remaining at KU for his final year of eligibility.
The result is that the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Henry Hardt, and the executive director, Walter Byers, said yesterday that Coan's trip may fall under the "excessive entertainment" rules of the association, in which case he would be no longer eligible to play football at KU.
When Coan turned up in San Diego, Coach Jack Mitchell seemed resigned to Coan's apparently-imminent departure from KU's ivy-covered halls of learning.
But this has changed.
This reporter went to see Mitchell this afternoon. Mitchell was seated at his desk, a telephone receiver in one hand, a copy of the NCAA regulations in the other, and the inevitable cigar in his mouth.
"It's right here in black and white," he said, hanging up the receiver and handing me the rules.
"Heck," he began, "I don't know anymore about this than you do." He was genial but puzzled.
"IF THE HUY (Coan) paid his own way, he's okay. But I just don't know what he did. I've got my opinion, but I'm not going to speculate for the press.
"Heck, we could reimburse them," Mitchell said, referring to the money Coan may have received from the Chargers to make the trip.
"Or I wonder if maybe he could pay them back. That's what I don't know. I'm just as much in the dark as anybody else
"I think I'll call this Byers fellow right now (Walter Byers is executive director of the NCAA).
MITCHELL PLACED a call to Byers at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, where he is attending a meeting of college football officials.
The operator could not reach Byers, so Mitchell asked her to get A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, KU athletic director, who is in the same hotel. Placing his hand over the receiv-
Placing his hand over the receiver, Mitchell said:
"Dutch is up there. He can talk to those people and find out what the deal is."
But Lonborg could not be reached either so Mitchell left a request that he call, and then hung up.
Will Coan play football at KU next fall if the NCAA rules that he is ineligible?
"Oh no," Mitchell answered. "We won't play him if there turns out to be the slightest question."
Mitchell added that although Coan has said he wants to continue at the university, he probably will leave to join the pros if he cannot play football for KU next season.
"I DONT THINK he'd stay here if he were ineligible and couldn't play football for us. He'd lose his scholarship and everything.
"The guy wants to stay here. He's told me that. I just hope he can. This trip has got him into trouble, but heck — everybody's been doing this kind of thing for years."
In Chicago yesterday, Byers told the Associated Press that from what he had heard, Coan's trip constituted a definite violation of NCAA rules, adding that in such a case, Coan would be ineligible for college play.
UNABLE TO TALK to Byers or Lonborg, Mitchell decided to go home to eat lunch.
Leaving, he remarked;
"I'm sorry I couldn't help you anymore than this. I just don't know what's going to happen."
(See earlier story page 6)