Thin ice and packed snow have caused trouble for cars, ice skaters and the campus police.
Cold, Icy Weather Brings Problems
Since sleet began falling Thursday, the campus police have reported five car accidents totaling an estimated $470 in damage. There were no injuries.
CHECKPOINT CRASH—The inevitable has happened. This station wagon skidded on the icy roads Saturday afternoon and crashed into the traffic control station at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and West Campus.
The police have also been busy keeping skaters off Potters Lake. This morning the ice was still unsafe in spots, according to the athletic department.
Four of the traffic accidents occurred Friday. The worst accident was on Saturday, when a car slid into the traffic control station island at the intersection of West Campus Road and Jayhawk Boulevard. The damage to the car totaled $300, but the driver walked away.
The ice is not scheduled to melt. Cloudy skies with little or no precipitation are expected today and tomorrow. Another surge of cold Arctic air promises to extend the record-breaking cold wave which has plagued Kansas for several days.
Sub-zero weather is expected tonight. Today's temperature will be in the 20s.
Occasional light snow flurries may fall today or tomorrow.
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The highways in the northeast part of the state were slick over the weekend. Both city and state maintenance crews have been liberally sprinkling roads and hills with sand in efforts to keep down the number of accidents.
Monday, Jan. 14, 1963
"THE NATION'S labor unions and much of business favor the chief executive's approach. But his proposals faced sharp scrutiny in Congress, where some influential members question the wisdom of tax cuts without reductions in spending.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Jr. Colleges Seek Aid Boost
Actually, Kennedy asked the lawmakers to cut taxes $13.5 billion between now and the end of 1965, but he proposed to recapture $3.5 billion of this by broadening the tax base and ending what he called "unfair or unnecessary preferences." He did not pin-point these.
(Editor's note: This is the first article in a three part series on state aid to teachers in Kansas. Today's article deals with sources of income for junior colleges.)
"Now, when no military crisis strains our resources, now is the time to act. We cannot afford to be timid or slow. For this is the most important task confronting Congress in 1963."
"It costs just as much to instruct a student in three hours of F as it does in three hours of A," says Dean Karl. Wilson of Coffeville College
By Steve Clark
Overshadowed by Wichita University's bid to become a state supported university is a smaller group which is interested in state aid for higher education.
It was the first time in the Internal Revenue Service's 100-year history that tax reduction had been proposed solely to stimulate a lagging economy. There have been 13 major tax cuts this century, most of them to realign rates after a war or because of a budget surplus.
THE JUNIOR college administrators were happy with the new program. The passing of the bill (Senate Bill No. 313) climaxed years of work seeking state aid. The administrators, however, see flaws in the bill and this year they are trying to get them removed.
The smaller group is the Kansas Association of Junior Colleges, which recently voted unanimously to ask the 1963 Legislature to increase state support from three dollars per semester hour to six dollars per semester hour.
60th Year, No. 70
BREAKING DOWN his proposal, the President said $11 billion would be cut from individual tax rates and $2.5 billion would result from reducing corporate rates. He said
The first flaw was that money is not given for a course that is failed
Second. aid is not granted in courses that are not parallel with state universities and colleges.
State aid is new for Kansas junior colleges. The 1961 Kansas Legislature made the initial step when it granted state funds for junior college use. The aid consisted of "three dollars for each credit hour granted each student by a junior college during the preceding school year."
Kennedy Asks Congress For $10 Billion Tax Cut
This is contrary to the Eurich Report, which recommends reconstituting and upgrading junior colleges under local boards and under the general supervision of the Board of Regents. General supervision of junior colleges is now under the State Department of Education.
The association proposes that the commission be composed of members of the Legislature, the State Department of Education, the Department of Vocational Education and the public junior colleges.
The President said his plan would help provide two million more jobs by stimulating private and business purchasing power and strengthen America's hand in fashioning a "world of order."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) – President Kennedy asked Congress today to cut taxes $10 billion over the next three years, starting with a $6 billion reduction this year in personal and corporate levies.
CALLING FOR ACTION on his tax reduction program, Kennedy said:
In a 5,500-word State of the Union address, delivered in person to a joint session of Congress, the chief executive also took a cautious view of the world situation.
THE KAJC WILL ask the legislature to put payment on the basis of semester hours enrolled in instead of semester hours completed. At the same time, it will ask the legislature to appoint a special commission to draft legislation for a statewide system of junior colleges.
"THE BILL was drawn up and passed without the consultation of people connected with junior colleges," continued Wilson, who is past president of the Kansas Association of Junior Colleges and presently serving as secretary.
"The state of Kansas is actively developing into an industrial state." Wilson stated. "Junior colleges feel they are the ones to offer the young men and women of this state technical training to go into employment in industry and business. Therefore, junior colleges are interested in serving the industries of the state. We receive no state aid for this and it is draining our expenditures. We believe we are doing a service for the state, and should receive state aid for it."
"This provision does not allow for technical machine shop courses because they are not applicable to a bachelor of science degree. No aid is granted for night classes either.
The current budgets of the state's 14 public junior colleges totals $19 million and of this, the state contributes $315.505.
Originally the Kansas Legislature proposed to give the state's public junior colleges six dollars per credit hour. But it lowered the figure because it gave too much money to the junior college level.
(Tomorrow's article will deal with the junior college in education.
One example is Coffeyville College. It receives $400 per student from its local school district and $160 per student from the county treasury. Each adjacent county contributes $160 for each student it has enrolled.
DAVID WILLIAMS, dean of Garden City junior college, says he does not believe junior college officials are ready to provide an answer on the question of supervision.
The average class load at Coffeyville College is 14.7 hours per student. This gives the college $45 per semester from the state for each student under the present plan.
"We don't know what Board of Regents control would mean," he said.
Kansas junior colleges are now municipally-owned. Each draws support from its school district, its county, adjacent counties and the state.
the tax cuts would increase purchasing power, with the greatest increase going to low-income consumers.
His plan would fix individual income tax rates, which now range from 20 to 91 per cent, at "a more sensible range" of from 14 to 65 per cent. The current 52 per cent rate on corporate earnings would be cut
Two Liberals Named To Key Committee
WASHINGTON — (UPI)
House Democrats today assigned two liberal Democrats to the House Ways & Means Committee, spurning a Georgian backed by speaker John W. McCormack.
The committee has life-and- death power over President Kennedy's medicare and tax-cutting programs.
The winners were Reps. Ross Bass, D-Tenn., with 169 votes and W. Pat Jennings, D-Va., with 161 votes. Landrum got only 121 or 122 votes, members reported.
In a three-way fight for two vacant posts on the committee, House Democrats by secret ballot rejected McCormack's candidate, Rep. Phil M. Landrum, D-Ga., by a decisive margin.
back to the pre-Korean War level of 47 per cent.
IN SETTING UP new individual rates, the President proposed splitting the tax bracket which now covers the first $2,000 of taxable income. His plan would provide a 14 per cent tax rate for the first $1,000. The second $1,000 would be taxed at a slightly higher rate, but still below present levels.
KENNEDY CONCEDED his proposal would increase the federal deficit — but insisted this would be only temporary. He said in this connection that his new fiscal 1964 budget, which goes to Congress on Thursday, will be cut below this year's level except for defense, space and interest on the national debt.
This formula would mean tax savings ranging from 30 per cent for persons with very small taxable incomes to less than 20 per cent for those in other income brackets. But it was impossible to spell out dollars and cents savings pending more details on the plan.
Kennedy underscored his determination to make tax reduction the no. 1 legislative issue this year by dealing only in very general terms with such controversial new frontier
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UN Forces Prepare For Drive on Kolwezi
ELISABFTHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo — (UPI) — The United Nations was reported building up its forces today for a final drive on Kolwezi.
If Katanga President Moise Tsombe refuses to surrender the town a U. N. attack would take place within a week.
INFORMED SOURCES said U.N. officials would deliver a surrender appeal to Tshombe in a few days. Tshombe had threatened to blow up mining and power installations if the United Nations tries to take it by force.
Officials of the Union Miniere warn that this would cripple about three-fourths of Katanga's hydroelectric power and deal a severe blow to the economy of the entire Congo.
U. N. troops have met little resistance so far in a gradual advance toward Kolwezi from Jadotville.
Informed sources said the contingent, built around tough Hurkas soldiers from India who regard a battlefield death as a sure pass to
TSHOMBE FLEW to Kolwezi over the weekend after a brief visit to Northern Rhodesia. His interior minister, Godefroid Munongo, Foreign Minister Evariste Kimba and Finance Minister Jean Baptiste Kibwe were reported with him.
Tshombe had been reported on the verge of agreeing to hand Kol-wezi over to the United Nations when a group of Central Congo government soldiers arrived in Elisabethville last week.
Katanga National Bank director Andre van Roeys was named to head the mission.
glory, could be up to full strength for an attack within a week.
ACCRA, Ghana — (UPI) — Togo rebels who assassinated pro-Western President Sylvanus Olympio proclaimed their control of the small West African nation today and promised a new constitution and elections.
Togo Rebels Claim Control Pledge Constitution Reform
A group of Elisabethville businessmen who had supported Tshombe said they were contemplating sending their own mission to Tshombe to ask him to give up without a fight.
BOTH EUROPEANS and Africans have had enough of the trouble which has gripped Katanga since Tshombe's troops started fighting with U.N. forces Christmas eve.
A broadcast over radio Lome in the Togolese capital said Olympio was killed yesterday "because he went against the people's will." It said the rebels had everything under control and would deal severely with any "treasonable activity."
THE ANNOUNCER SAID a civilian committee would be appointed to draw up a constitution under which a new national assembly will be elected. The current parliament is controlled entirely by Olympio's committee of Togolese Unity Party.
The broadcast followed reports that Antoine Meatchi, the Togo exile who was called to lead the new government, had been halted last night at the sealed border between Togo and Ghana.
There was no word today whether Meatchi had been able to cross the border. He had been living in Accra.
OLYMPIO WAS KILLED IN A lightning coup early yesterday by rebels who left his body on the steps of the U.S. embassy in Lome.
Radio Lome broadcast gave the names of the insurrectionary committee which led the coup. Most appeared to be low-ranking army officers.
It was reliably learned in Accra that U.S. ambassador to Ghana William Mahoney called on Ghanian President Kwame Nkrumah last night to discuss the Togo situation, after receiving instructions from Washington.