Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 67
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1962
Million Restored to Budget
Governor OK's Blake Replacement, Pay Hike
By Scott Payne
Gov. John Anderson today asked the State Legislature for $23,808,741 for KU's budget.
Though the figure is a 9.6 per cent increase over the $21.7 million being spent here this year, it is $355.19 less than the $24.1 million requested for KU by the State Board of Regents. State Budget Director James W. Bibb in November had recommended a $1.4 million budget cut.
Included in the governor's recommendation is a 4 per cent salary increase for faculty members. Mr Bibb had cut this out completely.
Expressing mixed feelings about the governor's KU recommendation, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary for the University, said he was pleased the governor had requested the $720,000 needed for replacement of Blake Hall.
"However, Gov. Anderson's cut of $120,000 from funds for the hiring of new instructors was a pretty harsh one," he added.
"SINCE WE CAN expect an ever-increasing number of students in the next few years, we will need that classroom space badly," he said.
(The deletion makes it impossible for KU to hire more than 26 of the 42 new instructors the administration says it requires.)
"Because of that cut," said Mr. Nichols, "the ratio of new faculty members to new students will be 1 to about 26 instead of the ideal 1 to 17."
HE SAID HE was also disappointed by a deletion of $30,000 from KU's requested funds for routine repair and improvement. "Last year," he said, the amount was $165,000. Now it's been cut to $135,000. This means only one thing—deferred maintenance.
"We have spent our full repair allocations here every year on selected projects approved by the Board of Regents. Even at this, we have not been able to accomplish
everything. Now it will become a case of defer, defer, defer until the State has to step in and do the projects at a higher cost later."
Mr. Nichols said other cuts in the governor's recommendation to the Legislature included:
The special repair fund of $45,-000 which was intended for the proposed campus traffic control stations and repaving of Sunnyside Ave.
- The faculty salary increase request of five per cent (it was cut to four)
- Additional student aid amounting to $25,424
Also resulting from the governor's action was a $1.4 million cut in the recommendation for the KU Medical Center.
The institution had sought a budgeet of $13,385,288 for the new fiscal year.
THE GOVERNOR, HOWEVER,
sawed into the capital improvements
request of the Medical Center re-
commending $608,000 as opposed to a
request for $1,908,000.
The request was for funds to construct a clinic and several other buildings. The Legislature has the power to reinstate the request, but sources indicated such action appeared unlikely.
In his address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Gov. Anderson recommended a total State budget of $398.7 million.
Of this, $63.7 million is intended for the expenditures of the State Board of Regents and all institutions under its jurisdiction. Colleges and universities are included in this.
THE FUNDS THE GOVERNOR recommended would, if approved by the Legislature, be appropriated for spending in the 1963 fiscal year which begins July 1.
Under this budget, Kansas tax-
buyers would not be faced with a
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Gov. John Anderson
City Slams, Then Passes KU's Plan
The Lawrence City Commission yesterday approved KU's proposed traffic control plan, but members indicated they have reservations because of the plan's effect on city traffic.
By Clayton Keller
The commission's complaint was that the plan, by closing Jayhawk Boulevard, will block the only east-west through street in a ten-block area.
(Note — It was announced today by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, that Gov. John Anderson had cut the traffic control proposal from his budget recommendations. The Legislature has the power to reinstate the plan.)
"THIS (THE PLAN) will force people to go to Ninth or Nineteenth, and both are already too narrow for
the traffic they carry," Mayor Ted Kennedy said.
The commission's approval was requested in a letter from Chancel-
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Poll Planned by KU YR
Bv Zeke Wigglesworth
A student political organization at the University of Kansas is planning to organize a group to poll campus views and reactions.
The KU Young Republicans, sponsors of the project, are setting up the polling group to take samples of student thought on national, international and campus affairs.
The announcement of the proposed organization was presented to the All Student Council last night by the president of the Young Republicans. Jerry Dickson. Newton junior.
"THE MAIN reason it will be established," he said, "is to get a consensus of how students are thinking on campus, national, and international affairs. It should be a help to all. It will make students stop and think about these affairs, and it should help the ASC to get an idea of how KU students are thinking."
In a telephone interview after the ASC meeting, Dickson said there are several reasons why the polling group is being started.
He explained that the Young Republicans have a purpose in organizing the group.
"The Young Republicans will issue these (the students') views. On another sheet, the Young Republican view of the problem, or perhaps the
HE SAID that the Young Republicans are interested in what KU students are thinking about, and it will be useful to the club. In addition, he said that the Young Republicans organization undertook the project because it is financially able to underwrite the costs of the polls.
views of a national Republican group, will be presented. But the facts themselves will be as unbiased and factual as is possible with such a poll.
The polls will be tabulations of questions asked, by telephone, of a "random sampling" of KU students.
He explained that the polling group will have a central committee which will be in charge of operation of the surveys.
He said that the polls should stir up controversy.
"There will always be someone who will disagree with the results of polls. If, for example, the tabulations show that the campus is generally conservative in feeling, there will be liberals who will disagree. The same is true the other way around."
"THE CENTRAL committee will ask the telephone interviewees yes and no questions. These questions will be checked by faculty members to see that they are unbiased and
not misleading. There will be no questions of the 'Have you stopped beating your wife?' variety. In addition, since one yes or no question is probably not completely adequate, supporting questions will be asked."
In the prospectus of the polling group which Dickson read to the ASC, the following examples are given of the type of questions which would be used in the poll:
Do you favor a World Crisis Day because you personally are interested?
Do you favor a World Crisis Day because you feel the student body is interested?
Do you favor a World Crisis Day?
If yes.
If no:
Are you against a World Crisis Day because you are not interested in a discussion of world affairs?
The student answers yes, no, or no opinion.
Dickson said that the central committee will need help to carry out the telephone interviews.
"Of course, six or seven people cannot make 200 phone calls a week. The committee will have to have a secretarial staff. The staff will help make the calls and the committee will tabulate the results. We are hoping that it will issue reports once or twice a week."
Budget Highlights
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The Kansas Legislature, newly convened in its 1962 budget session, met in joint session of House and Senate today to receive Gov. John Anderson's proposals for State spending.
The two chambers were scheduled to convene separately at 10 a.m., and sit jointly half an hour later to hear Anderson's message.
Health
Gov. Anderson made the following budget recommendations in the field of health and hospitals in Kansas during fiscal 1963:
Board of Health, $4,770,653; Kansas Neurological Institute, $2.5 millions; Larned State Hospital, $3.8 millions; Osawatomie State Hospital, $3.8 millions; Parsons State Hospital, $2.4 millions; State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Norton, $841,070; Institutional Management and Department of Social Welfare, $1.1 millions; Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital, $501,601; Topeka State Hospital, $7.04 millions; and Winfield State Hospital, $3.2 millions.
Public Welfare
IN THE REALM of public welfare, Gov. Anderson recommended the following budget allotments in fiscal 1963 which begins next July.
Coordinating Council for the Blind, $1,000; Crippled Childrens Commission, $621,660; Employment Security Division, $23,553,676; Children's Receiving Home, $258,717; Pensions, $23,474; State Board of Social Welfare, $46,603,278; and Soldiers Home and Mother Bickerdye Annex, $577,053.
Public Safety
The governor made the following recommendations for state spending in public safety in fiscal 1963:
Adjutant General, $1.04 millions; Attorney General and KBI, $309,212; Brand Commissioner, $68,163; State Fire Marshal, $138,329; Industrial Farm for Women, $166,793; State Industrial Reformatory, $1.41 millions; Kansas Safety Council, $1,400; Director of Penal Institutions, $998,209; Board of Probation and Parole, $245,978; Kansas State Penitentiary, $2.3 millions; and Receptions and Diagnostic Center, $630,131.
Prison Funds
Despite warnings by Kansas State Prison Warden Tracy Hand that "The lid is going to come off here at any time if we don't get some relief from overcrowding," Gov. Anderson sliced KSP's budget drastically.
The prison had asked for $638,000 for new construction and for remodeling existing structures.
The governor recommended to the Legislature that a total capital improvements fund of $8,000 be allocated for the prison.
Kansas State Prison, an old prison, was built to accommodate 1,200 persons. Warden Hand reported to the Legislative Ways and Means Committee that it was currently housing over 1,800.
Cold Wave Hits Nation
Most of the nation froze today in one of the bitterest cold waves of the century, and temperatures in Northeast Kansas easily kept up their end of the bargain.
The predicted high for today for the area is 5 to 10 above. Tonight's temperatures are expected to drop to 5 to 10 below. Thursday's high will be 10 to 15 above.
Cold records were set in at least 12 cities ranging from Michigan to the tip of Texas. The week's toll of weather-blamed deaths climbed to 88. No real relief was in sight.
The United Press International
count of weather-related deaths
since the start of the polar blast
last weekend showed 19 in Illinois,
17 in Wisconsin, 9 in Michigan, 8
in Texas, 6 in both Colorado and
Iowa, 3 each in Missouri, Montana,
Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
2 each in New York State, Ohio and
Kansas, and 1 each in Alabama,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Minnesota
and Oklahoma.
The cold wave covered 40 of the nation's 50 states and its toll in terms of misery and property loss was incalculable.
The temperature was written in double figures in many areas. It was an unofficial 32 degrees below zero at Leadville, Colo., and it was an official 47 below at Drummond, Mont.
Local Temperature of Minus 6
Temperatures at KU in the past several days have been mighty low, but they have set no new records.
The KU Weather Bureau reports that the high temperature yesterday was 5 degrees and the low temperature was minus 2 degrees.
The bureau said at 8 a.m. today that the low recording last night was minus 6 degrees.
These figures are compiled over 12 hour periods. The Bureau said that no records have been established by the cold slump, as a low recording of minus 8 was set last month.