Governor's Budget Decision Due Next Week
Kansas Governor John Anderson will soon give his decision on the recommended $1.4 million cut from KU's $23.4 million budget request.
The action will come next Tuesday or Wednesday when the Governor gives his state budget recommendation for the coming fiscal year to the Legislature.
THE CUT WAS MADE late in November when State Budget Director James W. Bibb in his budget recommendations to the Governor deleted the amount from the Board of Regents' requests for KU.
The Governor's recommendation is expected to be an increase over the Budget Director's figure, KU administration officials sav.
Following Anderson's recommendation, the Legislature will act upon recommendations of its own committees. The final budget may be above or below the Governor's proposal.
If the director's recommendation is approved as it stands, it will leave out funds necessary for replacement of Blake Hall, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University said in November.
- All funds for faculty salary increases.
- MR. NICHOLS SAID the cut would also deny the University;
- $65,000 from the present routine repair figure.
- All special repair funds including those for traffic control stations for reduction of campus traffic.
Mr. Nichols said the cut would also limit the University to hiring only 27 of 64 additional staff and faculty members needed.
"IT IS ANYONE'S guess about what the Governor will recommend." Mr. Nichols added.
The budget proposal for the KU Medical Center was also cut in the Director's November action. He recommended $11.1 million for the Kansas City institution—a cut of $2.1 million from the requested $13.2 million.
The Director's state-wide college and university budget recommendations amounted to $72,477.-
782—approximately $5.8 million less than requested by the State Board of Regents.
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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
"I think what this organization lacks right now is leadership," he said. "If we elect leaders, we'll have someone who can speak for the chapter."
Thursday, Jan. 4, 1962
Local YAF Chapter Applies For National Charter Link
After McIwaine's talk, however, Jay Deane, Kansas City junior, moved that the group elect permanent officers anyway.
By Dennis Farney
"YOU DON'T elect officers before you have rules," McIlwaine argued. "Right now you've got a division of opinion regarding the operation of the group, and both sides are afraid that the other will gain a numerical advantage if we delay in having elections."
The KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, after spending nearly three months organizing has applied for affiliation with the national YAF organization.
- Was criticized by Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior and a national director of YAF, for "picking on each other instead of the liberals."
While the original purpose of the meeting was to elect permanent officers, the decisions to elect temporary officers and to apply for national affiliation came after McIlwaine told the group that they had "no standards for office, no records of who is qualified, no constitution, no rules, no organization and no concerns."
The decision for national affiliation came during a stormy two-hour meeting held by the KU group Dec. 18. In the meeting, the group also:
- Debated an alleged spilt within the group.
- Elected temporary officers to guide them during the next two or three weeks, until permanent officers can be elected.
- Discussed a letter to the editor published in the Dec. 18th issue of the Daily Kansan.
(Mcellwaine was apparently referring to the friction between the Committee for an Effective KU-YAF and the then-acting leadership of the KU chapter. At the
meeting the committee distributed a paper which listed its own candidates for permanent officers, and which criticized the "muddling inaction and disregard of state YAF directives shown by the temporary leadership."
After further discussion, Deane was granted permission to make a substitute motion calling for election of temporary officers whose functions would be to establish the KU group as part of the national organization and the development of a constitution and set of bylaws for the group.
An amendment by McIlwaine providing that permanent officers should be elected before the end of the first semester—carried, and the temporary officers were elected.
MARICK PAYTON, Lawrence resident, was elected temporary chairman; Jim Williamson, Hutchinson junior, temporary vice chairman; and Sally Chandler, Holton junior, temporary secretary.
Much of the meeting before the election was taken up by a debate between Richard Garnett, Shawnee Mission senior and author of the Dec. 18 letter to the editor, and Bob Gaskins, Wichita freshman and president of the Committee for an Effective KU-YAF.
Garnett accused Gaskins of trying to "cut the YAF's throat" in a Dec. 18 statement to the Daily Kansan. (The statement, which was included in an editor's note above the letter, said there was a leadership struggle within the KU-YAF and called Garnett's Dec. 18 letter to the editor inaccurate and misleading.)
GASKINS and his supporters, in turn, criticized Garnett's letter—which labeled Daily Kansan editorials on the YAF as "unsubstantiated slop"—as being in bad taste and said the letter did not reflect the views of the Committee for an Effective KU-YAF.
"There never was a split in our leadership," Garnett said. "As I understand it, the split was engineered by Bob Gaskins—who is
not now a leader of the KU-YAF, who has never been a leader of our chapter and who, I hope, will never in the future be a leader. He tried to cut our throats in the Kansan today."
"OUR UNITED front is gone when we start having the incidents," Brent Mandry, Ferguson, Mo., senior and the then-acting chairman of the KU-YAF, told the group. "We (the acting officers) were all doing our best."
"If the leadership is doing the best it can, then the best is not good enough," returned Gaskins.
Gaskins asked Garnett why he wrote the letter without consulting the group as a whole. Garnett replied that, in writing the letter, he was merely speaking for himself. He said that he had attempted, without success, to change the signature on the letter from "Young Americans for Freedom, KU Chapter." to his name.
Why, asked Gaskins, did Garnett ridicule the Daily Kansas by nominating it for the "Garbage Pail of the Month" award?
"That was only a device to get the readers into the story," Garnett replied.
AT THIS POINT, McIlwaine asked permission to talk to the group. He told them to concentrate their attack on the liberals instead of each other, and warned them against "trying to move too fast."
"You don't seem to understand," he said, "that you must present an image of doing something constructive. Thus far, you have been ineffective because you, like all conservatives, pick on yourselves, rather than on the liberals.
"You are trying to move too fast. KU has always lacked any conservative organizations, and you've been here only 13 weeks.
"Before you talk about slaying the liberal dragon with anything more than a pickle fork, you need organization."
Tshombe Rejects Only Two Points In Reunification
ELISABETHVILLE. Katanga,
The Congo — (UPI) President
Moise Tshombe told his provincial
assembly today he finds no fault
with six of eight points of the
Kitona agreement that would end
Katanga's secession from the rest
of the Congo.
But he said he could not agree to points one and eight. Point one demands Katanga acceptance of the "fundamental law" — the Congo's temporary constitution. Point eight demands Katanga acceptance of United Nations resolutions.
TSHOMBE'S SPEECH was considered remarkably mild. He made it to an assembly session that started late, almost never got off the ground and was made up of a bare quorum of 35 deputies.
The session possibly could take a vote on the Kitona agreement, although there was no indication of how long the deputies intended to talk or when a final vote might be taken.
The deputies set up two committees—one political, one foreign affairs—to study the Kitona document in detail and to report back to the assembly.
The agreement was signed by Tshombe on Dec. 21 after 17 hours of talks with central Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula at the United Nations base at Kitona. But he said then it would have to be approved by the Katangese provincial assembly before it could take effect.
DURING HIS SPEECH, Tshombe accused the UN. and the United States of "maladroit" interference during his conference with Adoula. But he did not repeat his personal attacks on U.S. Ambassador to Leopoldville Edmund A. Gullion.
Class Gift Arrives
Some $2,000 of the Class of 1961 Senior Golf fund went toward the purchase of a piece of sculpture called "The Avenger," now on display in Spooner-Thayer Museum. See page 5 for the story.
A Kansan Series: Part I
State Battle: Apportionment
BY CLAYTON KELLER
(Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series of articles dealing with reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature.)
If you are from a city area in Kansas, you do not have as much influence in the state legislature as you should have. In fact, you may have only one-twentieth as much representation as someone from a farm area.
Residents of cities throughout the nation are under-represented in their state governments. In many states, the situation is worse than in Kansas.
THE FOUR Kansas counties classified as metropolitan by the U.S. Census Bureau—Sedgwick, Wyandotte, Johnson, and Shawnee—have 813,804 residents, or nearly 40 per cent of the total population. These residents, however, have only four seats in the state Senate, ten per cent of the membership.
But in many states—including Kansas—a number of persons are becoming aware of this discrimination and are doing something about it. In Tennessee, a group of citizens have taken a case to the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to force the state legislature to reapportion itself according to population.
Last week, a petition asking the Oklahoma Legislature to reapportion itself was signed by over 200,000 residents of that state.
IN KANSAS, four newspapersmen — J. P. Harris, Peter Macdonald, and John McCormally of the Hutchinson News and Ernest W. Johnson of The Oathe News have filed a brief in support of the Tennessee case. They contend that the Kansas Legislature is as badly apportioned as the Tennessee Legislature.
The Kansas constitution requires the Senate to be apportioned according to population only. The population of Kansas in 1600 was
Just how badly apportioned is the Kansas legislature?
Action Begins
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A pretrial hearing in the suit to force reapportionment of the Kansas legislature has been slated for Feb. 2 in Shawnee County District Court here.
In a letter to concerned parties Judge Marion Beatty said the motions are likely to be a major part of the suit and therefore he suggested the pre-trial hearing. He has proposed Feb. 28 as actual trial date,
The suit brought by four newspapermen in Hutchinson and Olathe would compel the Legislature to reapportion the House and the Senate on the basis of population
the hearing Feb. 2 will be held on motions to have the action dismissed.
2,178,611. Each of the 40 state Senators, therefore, should represent 54,465 persons.
But Sedgwick County, with a population of 343,231, has only one seat in the state Senate. Wyandotte County's 185,495 residents have only one vote in the Senate.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the 31st Senate district, containing Jewell and Mitchell Counties, has a population of only 16,083. These people have as much representation in the Senate as do the 343,231 residents of Sedgwick County.
The vote of a resident of Jewell or Mitchell County, therefore, is worth approximately 21.3 times as much as a resident of Sedgwick County.
What this means in the passage of legislation can easily be seen. Twenty-one of the 40 Senate seats—the number necessary to pass legislation—are controlled by 584,840 persons, or one-fourth of the people of Kansas.
THE STATE House of Representatives, according to the brief, "presents a picture of gross discrimination in favor of rural areas which makes the upper chamber (Senate) appear a model of equality by contrast."
The House, according to the constitution, has a membership of 125. Each county is required to have at least one representative. Twenty
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Anything to Get Home-
UNUSUAL BAGGAGE—KU students had to stand up in the baggage car from Newton to Hutchinson going home for the Christmas holidays. Over 150 students took the train west from Lawrence that night. They paid full fare. Photo by Tony Reed.