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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 12, 1956
Ike Asks For Billion In Federal School Aid
WASHINGTON—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower asked Congress today to provide a total of one and a quarter billion dollars in federal grants over the next five years to help build badly needed school rooms.
He said in a special message to Congress that the grants-at the rate of $250 million a year-should be matched with state funds to supplement local construction in the "neediest" school districts.
Features Aid Program
The request was the chief feature of a four-point federal aid program which Mr. Eisenhower said "should overcome the nation's critical class-room shortage within five years."
The shortage now is estimated at 203,000 classrooms.
The total program proposed by Mr. Eisenhower would amount to at least $2,020,000,000 in federal aid to public schools over five years.
Ike Lists Formula
For the federal grants, Mr. Eisenhower proposed a formula under which states "noticeably lagging" behind their ability to support public schools would get less federal aid, and he also proposed that federal funds be distributed "according to relative need."
Mr. Eisenhower also called for:
esnower also called for:
1. $750 million over five years for federal purchase of local school construction bonds when school districts cannot sell them in private markets at reasonable interest rates.
2. Federal advances to help provide reserves for bonds issued by state school financing agencies. The President said these bonds would finance local construction of schools
KU Debate Teams Enter Tournament
Two KU debate teams will enter a tournament Saturday at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.. About 40 schools will participate.
William Hagman, Pittsburgh, junior, and Hugh Bruner, Olathe sophomore, will enter the senior division. Ronald Sinn, Fort Scott freshman, and Allen Hickey, Liberal freshman, will be in the junior division.
The national college debate topic is, "Resolved, that the non-agricultural industries should guarantee their employees an annual wage."
to be rented and eventually owned by local school systems.
3. $20 million in matching grants to the states over five years for planning ways to overcome obstacles to financing school construction. to continue providing federal funds
providing federal funds The President also asked Congress for school construction in districts near federal bases and other government installations where school enrollments have increased sharply. The present law aiding such districts expires next June.
The foreign agricultural service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports that U.S. farms operate 60 to 65 per cent of all tractors used in agriculture in the world.
Soil Bank Possible In '56
WASHINGTON — (U.P.) - Secretary of Agriculture Era T. Benson said today the administration's proposed "soil bank" program can be put into effect this year if Congress acts quickly.
A month or two of "avoidable delay," he told the Senate Agriculture Committee "might cause us a year's time in getting the program launched."
The soil bank plan is the key feature of the administration's farm program which President Eisenhower sent to Congress Monday. It would provide for overall payments, both in cash and kind, totaling about one billion dollars annually to farmers. In return, participating farmers would agree to cut corn, wheat, cotton, rice and other plantings by 40 to 45 million acres.
Mr. Benson cautioned that the inducement offered to farmers to participate in the soil bank plan would have to be generous. Before farmers would comply, he said, they would have to feel that their net incomes would be at least as high as if they planted their allotted acres.
He also said broad participation would be necessary to insure the program's success.
The Secretary was the first administration witness at committee hearings on problems of declining farm income, huge surpluses, and over-production.
Mr. Benson told the committee that because of the big cotton crop in 1955, heavy loan operations probably will make necessary a further increase in the borrowing power of the commodity credit corp. The CCC which handles price support operations, now has a borrowing authority of 12 billion dollars.
ST. LOUIS (U.P.)—Bone-dry St.
Louis, in its 41st straight day without rain, tingled with static electricity today.
It's Shocking St. Louis Now
There was so much electricity that baggy sweaters became form-fitting and kisses were shocking, particularly to owners of new rugs.
The electricity stored up in the
Wasted Time
body when feet brush across thick-napped carpets was discharged when the person touched a metal object or another person.
AUBURN, Me. —(U,P)—Burglar worked night-long to batter apart a safe in a garage only to discover that it was empty and the safe door was unlocked.
At least one salesman was cash ing in on the prevalence of a state electricity by offering a sprig guaranteed to "take the shock off of home life" by removing the voltage from rugs and automobile seat cushions.
Wisconsin cows produced 16-500,000,000 pounds of milk in 1954, more than is produced in any other state and more than 13 per cent of all the milk produced in the United States.
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