Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year, No.7
Monday, Sept. 24, 1962
Russian Agriculture Not Up to Ambitious Plans
Russian agriculture is not in a state of crisis, 18 participants in the Soviet Agriculture Conference agreed here Saturday after three days of discussion.
days of discussion. They added though that a decline in incentive, lack of adequate pay, conflicting bureaucracies and wrong decisions have left Russia's farming program in poor shape.
Alec Nove, Rose Morgan visiting professor of economics, explained that agricultural production has not gone down, but has failed to meet the ambitious plans of the Soviets.
"Some of Khrushchev's orders have been beneficial," he said. "But where he has been wrong, the results have been serious. His orders are obeyed everywhere."
PROF. NOVE said compensation for the peasants may have declined recently. A Soviet farming specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lazar Volin, added there will never be adequate pay in collective farming. He said emphasis on heavy industry and military concerns will always outweight an agricultural emphasis.
MR. VOLIN commented as Soviet agriculture fails to meet unrealistic goals, confused administrators campaign even harder in the belief that Communists can overcome any obstacle by will power.
The state of Russia peasants is Europe's great social problem, Mr. Volin said.
Howard Swearer, professor of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles, said Premier Khruschev has created conflicting sets of bureaucracies. He said party leaders have gained dual control of the program in an attempt to decentralize governmental machinery in agriculture.
Because Khrushchev considers himself an authority on agriculture, he puts a strain on administration, Mr. Swearer said.
"Although Russia has evolved as a military, industrial and atomic power and has survived two world wars, the peasant question is the
(Continued on page 12)
Ticket Sales Rise This Fall
Some 8,500 KU students and students' wives had bought seats for the 1962 football season by the 4 p.m. deadline last Friday.
Monne Johnson, director of public relations for the athletic department, said the number was "a substantial increase over last year."
Last year's student reserved seat total was 8,200 and that figure included the medical students at Kansas City, Johnson said. "With the medical students, that ought to put this year's figure right at 9,000," he said.
Those students who failed to meet Friday's deadline may be left out.
"WE WILL HAVE to leave that up to the Athletic Seating Committee of the All Student Council." Johnson said. "We had hoped to get that all taken care of by the first game, and I think we've had good response," he said.
The ASC instituted the student reserved seating plan last season. The necessity for some kind of seating plan was apparent at the nationally televised KU-Syracuse game here on Parents' Day 1960.
The crowd became almost chaotic and stadium officials were unable to handle the situation. Some people had to stand in line more than two and one-half hours.
Legislators Discount Ticket Anger Reports
Two Kansas legislative leaders have discounted reports that many lawmakers are disturbed about the location of their seats at University of Kansas football games.
REP. ARTHUR THE House majority leader, said he doubted that many legislators are unhappy or concerned about the location of seats for KU football games.
The two legislators, Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan, and Dale Saffels, D-Garden City, expressed doubt about the reports.
The reports arose after last Saturday's meeting of the state Board of Regents. At that meeting, Board member Henry Bubb of Topeka commented that some members of the Legislature were unhappy about the location of their seats at football games. Bubb, however, told the Daily Kansan that he brought up the handling of complimentary tickets for the purpose of initiating "a more orderly disbursement" of the free passes.
"In the first place, most of them
HE CONFIRMED that "important" members of the Kansas Legislature are displeased with the location of their seats, but expressed doubts that a large number of legislators are complaining.
"Only two legislators have complained to me," Bubb said. He declined to name the men, but said one complainant is a member of the Ways and Means Committee.
live too far from Lawrence to be able to attend more than one or two games." Arthur said.
House minority leader Dal Saffels said he knows of no lawmaker unhappy with the seating arrangement.
He added that "the number of legislators interested in season tickets are a small nucleus centered around Lawrence."
EUBB PREDICTED the squeeze for good seats will become more acute. He said that in light of present crowded conditions, he doubted that KU officials will be able to continue to give as many complimentary tickets as they have in past years.
"And further adding to the problem is the fact that the alumni who contribute to the fund to finance the stadium expansion naturally are going to say 'Look, I kicked in, so how about some better seats?'"
"It has never been a major problem to my knowledge," Saffs said.
He said interest in the KU football team in recent years has probably increased the problem of meeting the demand for choice seats.
"The problem will continue to become more serious until the stadium is enlarged." he said.
Bubb was referring to that part of financial plans for the expansion which depends on private contributions of at least $200,000.
Weather
(Continued on page 12)
The weather will be cloudy with mild temperatures today, tonight and tomorrow. Occasional rain and scattered showers are expected today. The high today will be in the mid-70's and the low tonight is expected to be in the mid-50's. The high Tuesday will be in the lower 70's.
Chancellor Asks Ferguson Ruling On $62,500 Gift
By Bob Hoyt
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has asked the Kansas attorney general to rule on whether the University may refuse an estimated $62,500 gift because of a discriminatory religious restriction on the use of the money.
One-fourth of an estimated $250,000 estate has been given to the University with strings attached. The donor, Mrs. Grace Caroline Eaton, an 1893 graduate of KU, bequeathed the gift to establish scholarships limited to non Roman Catholic men.
AT THE BOARD of Regents meeting here Saturday, Chancellor Wescoe questioned the wisdom of accepting the gift on those conditions. He has asked Attorney General William Ferguson for a ruling whether or not the University may refuse the gift.
If the attorney general rules that the gift cannot be refused, the University may petition the probate court for a release from the restriction.
In other actions, approval was given to accept 252 acres at the old Sunflower Ordnance works east of Lawrence for a research center for entomology, radiation biophysics and engineering sciences. This land comes from the Federal General Services Administration.
THE BOARD ALSO recommended that the University accept a section of land in Greeley county to be held as income property. The section of land is a gift from Mrs. Edwina Trigg, widow of Fred Trigg, a former director of the Kansas City Star. She also bequeathed $10,000 in cash for a scholarship loan fund.
Also at the Friday meeting, the board named Prof. Alwyn Williams, dean of faculties at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland, to the Raymond C. Moore Regent's professorship in 1963. He will head the KU paleontological institute at a salary of $15,000 a year.
ELLSWORTH HALL—The 10-story men's dormitory now under construction along Iowa Street has been named in honor of Fred Ellsworth, who has resigned, effective next June 30, after 38 years as secretary of the KU Alumni Association. During this period he served under four chancellors, and became known to many people as "Mr. KU." He will continue to serve KU as counsel to the University Centenary Committee, which will plan the University's 100th anniversary celebration in 1966.
Medical School Fund Increases
Alumni of the University of Kansas School of Medicine have reached the $200,000 mark in a $1 million fund drive to endow distinguished teaching chairs in basic medical sciences.
The $200,000 includes contributions from two-thirds of the faculty at the Medical Center. This amount has come in during the last six months from about 150 individuals.
Sixty-three doctors met here Saturday with the national fund-raising chairmen, Dr. Edward H. Hashinger of La Jolla Calif., and Dr Claude F. Dixon of Rochester, Minn
MAURICE E. BARKER, fund director of the KU Endowment Association, said that the group hopes to meet the goal by 1966, as part of the University's centennial celebration.
Instructors in the basic medical sciences are scarce, Thomas Seymour, assistant secretary of the Greater University Fund, said. The income from the endowment would increase salaries by about $5,000 or $6,000 yearly.
Chairs have not been assigned to definite courses. Mr. Seymour said the chairs would probably be awarded where the need was greatest.
Fee Payments Begin Tomorrow
Personal solicitations and letters are the methods used to raise the funds. Each doctor will be asked to contribute $100 each year for a five-year period.
The fund drive is a project of the Medical Alumni Association. The Medical Center has 3,000 alumni.
The doctors met from 10 to 12 Saturday in the Kansas Union. Dr. Arden C. Miller, dean of the KU Medical School, and Dr. W. Clarke
The four-day tuition and fee-payment period will begin tomorrow for 10,400 students currently enrolled at KU.
Tuition and campus privilege fees will be $104 for students residing in Kansas, $154 for out-of-state graduate students, and $259 for out-of-state undergraduates.
Students will be assessed a $2
penalty each day for late payments beginning Monday, Oct. 1. The final day for paying fees will be Oct. 4.
Before paying fees, students must pick up their orange fee card in the basement of Strong Hall. Students may also receive an optional fee card for the Jayhawker yearbook-magazine, Blue Cross-Blue Shield hospitalization insurance, and senior class dues.
Yearly Blue Cross rates will be $22.20 for single students, and $66.45 for married students. The 1962-63 Jayhawker will be on sale for $6, and the optional senior class dues will be $10.
Wescoe, Chancellor of the University, spoke at a noon luncheon.
One hundred per cent of the medical school classes are represented by chairmen, and 75 per cent of the county medical society units in Kansas have chairmen. There are chairmen for 65 per cent of the states.
Dr. John F. Bower, Kansas City, Mo., is chairman of contributions in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Stadium To Be Enlarged By'63
The Board of Regents approved a $600,000 addition to the Memorial Stadium Saturday and opened the final door to the plan which will add 6,500 seats by next fall.
Under the terms of the proposal, not a single dollar of tax revenue will be spent.
The expansion will raise the seating capacity to 44,900 — fourth largest in the Big Eight Conference by adding 27 rows to extend upward and backward from the west rim of the horseshoe-shaped structure. A triple-deck press box, serviced by an elevator, will be centered on the 50-yard line.
ONE-THIRD of the cost or $200,-
000, whichever is less, will come
from the Athletic Corporation
reserve fund. A 20-year loan from
the KU Endowment Association will
match the reserve fund contribution.
again with a $200,000 limit.
The balance will come from alumni contributions. A preliminary sampling of alumni interest, University officials said, indicated it is strong enough to provide the minimum $200,000 needed from private contributions.
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR A. C.
(Dutch) Lonborg said it is hoped the blueprints will go to contractors by Nov. 1, and the contract can be awarded by Nov. 21. Construction will start shortly after the final KU home game, Nov. 17, if all goes as planned.
The addition will be concrete, and two ramps from Maine St. will funnel fans to the top of the present structure. The bottom two levels of the press box will have restrooms, and will be heated and ventilated.