Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Monday, Jan. 9, 1956.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year. No.70
Education School To Start Term In New Bailey
The School of Education which has shared Fraser Hall'with the departments of English, languages, and home economics, will move into Bailey Hall between semesters.
The $600,000 face-lifting job on Bailey is nearing completion, and the first three floors will be finished by the end of the semester. Work on the building began last March.
"I think we're going to have one of the finest physical facilities in the field of education in the country," said Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the school.
Many improvements have been made. A new roof and new windows have been installed, a fire escape has been added and a new front entrance has been constructed.
Floors Rebuilt
The floors, which had been redone three times, were torn out and new flooring, including tiled halls, have been laid. All walls have been replastered and new acoustic ceilings have been installed.
Stairways and entrance landings have been finished with terrazzo, a concrete floor with marble chips similar to the stairways in the Student Union.
One of the finest features of the building will be an air conditioning system which will enable summer students to work in comfort. The building also has new plumbing and wiring.
Houses Many Offices
The fourth floor, which formerly served as an attic has been reclaimed, providing additional office space for the department and its affiliate services.
Offices for the school, Guidance Bureau, curriculum laboratory, music education department, art education department, reading clinic, visual education, speech correction, bureau of educational research and services, statistical services, and teachers appointment bureau will be in the building.
The work has been done by the Harmon Construction Company of Oklahoma City, Okla., under the coordination of Keith Lawton, physical plant operations director for the University.
Math Professor Gets Sloan Grant
Dr. Russell N. Bradt, assistant professor of mathematics, has received a $1,300 grant for fundamental research next summer from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York City.
The Sloan grant is one of the few such awards made on the basis of recommendations from colleagues.
The grant is one of 24 totaling $235,000 which the foundation has made this year to faculty members in 16 U. S. colleges and universities. It can be extended to as long as three years. It is a "no-strings attached" award given for scientific study which may add to the world's store of knowledge without specific attention given to how it later may be applied.
Dr. Bradt said his probable area of study will be statistics.
The 32-year-old mathematician holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Colorado State College of Education at Greeley, Colo., a second master's from KU, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
License plates, to be properly exhibited, must have no obstruction to any of the numerals, letters, or wording warned Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, today. Lawrence and campus police will issue warning tickets until Feb. 1. After that time regular City Court summonses will be issued to offenders.
Must Install Permits Correctly
Chief Skillman said that void license plates must be removed. Non-resident vehicles receiving two plates will display one on the front and rear. Only one plate will be issued in Kansas this year. This must be placed on the rear of the car.
"The proper method to attach any object to your license plate is to attach it to the back of the plate so that it will extend above or to either side of the plate," he said.
Edwin W. Fenstemaker, campus policeman, is shown writing out a ticket for an improperly attached zone permit. The inset shows the correct manner for attaching the permits.
Design Seniors Display Work
An exhibit of the work of seniors in the department of design graduating this semester will be on display today in the west walls of the third floor of Strong Hall.
Seniors who expect to receive a bachelor of fine arts degree and their respective majors are: Larry Davenport, Newton, commercial art; Janie Lee Gagelman, Hays, interior design; Dan Lindsay, Mission, interior design; Richard Lumpkin, Kansas City, Mo., commercial art; Frances Fay Phillips, Jefferson, N.Y., interior design; Claralyn Ruff, Kansas City, Kan., commercial art and Don Williamson, Lawrence, commercial art.
Each student will display his own individual work. All seniors are required to exhibit their work before graduation.
The Travel Coffee scheduled for 4 p.m. today in the Music and Browsing Room of the Student Union has been postponed until Feb. 13.
The coffees, sponsored by the Student Union Activities, feature speeches by faculty members who have visited, taught, or studied in foreign countries.
W. H. Shoemaker, professor of Romance languages, will speak on Spain.
SUA Travel Coffee Re-Scheduled
Any student may read for parts in the three University Theatre productions to be given next semester. Tryouts are from 7 to 9 p.m. today and Tuesday and 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday in Studio Theater, Green Hall. The three plays are "Menaechmi," "Pygmalion," and "Kind Lady." Scripts are available in the office of the speech and drama department, 5 Green.
Play Tryouts Scheduled
KU-KS Tickets Now On Sale
Students are asked to buy their tickets before Tuesday night as the tickets will be sent back to Manhattan Wednesday. The price is $1.50.
Tickets for the Kansas University-Kansas State basketball game Saturday night in Manhattan are on sale at the ticket office of Allen Field House.
Ahrens Engineering Scholarship Set Up
Income from the endowment will provide an annual award of $250 to a graduate of a high school in Miami county for his or her freshman year in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Establishment of the Ahrens Engineering Scholarship Fund at the University has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The donors are Miss Della A. Ahrens, Darwin W. Ahrens, Henry D. Ahrens and Don J. Ahrens, all of Paola.
The Ahrens scholars will be chosen by a KU scholarship committee from among candidates recommended by the principals of the five high schools in Miami County.
Hall Requests Hike In'57 KU Budget
Loan Funds Used By 819 New Record
University loan funds were used by 819 students between Sept. 1 and Dec.20, according to Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association.
The total amount borrowed was $73,042, an all-time high for any similar period. Mr. Youngberg said that about 2,000 students are expected to borrow from the funds during this school year.
Interest on student loans is set at $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. It is not designed to make a profit, but merely to provide a reserve to cover losses, Mr. Youngberg said. Few losses are incurred by refusal to pay, he added. Most are the result of permanent disability or death.
The Endowment Association has never called on a collection agency or instituted legal proceedings to force payment of an unpaid loan, Mr. Youngberg said.
Funds are made available primarily by bequests. Another source is donations to the Greater University Fund which are specifically made for the loan fund. Also, families of deceased persons often request that people give to the loan fund instead of sending flowers to the funeral.
"We feel strongly that student loan funds constitute an excellent means for helping students with limited financial resources," Mr. Youngberg said.
Psychiatric Expert To Visit Campus
Dr. Milton Wittman, psychiatric social work consultant with the U.S. Public Health Service, will visit the Kansas City area and the University Friday through Wednesday.
Dr. Wittman will meet with members of the faculty Tuesday and with field work instructors at the Kansas City and Topeka psychiatric clinics today and Wednesday. Social work students are training in hospitals in these two cities.
Weather
A-Energy Highlighted At 8th UN Conference
Generally fair this afternoon, to night and Tuesday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 15 to 20. High Tuesday 40 to 45 northeast to 60s extreme southwest.
Discussions of atomic energy and armaments highlight the eighth annual United Nations Conference being held at the Student Union today and Tuesday.
Speeches on the peaceful uses of atomic energy by Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, professor of physics; Dr. Worth L. Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, and Dr. Louis F. Dwelling, assistant professor of geology, will precede discussion groups on the subject this afternoon.
Vernon Duckworth-Barker, a senior information officer at the
UN, will talk on "San Francisco— Ten Years After" at the banquet tonight.
United Nations literature, stamps and items from other countries will be on display at the Student Union throughout the conference.
A vigil of silent prayer for world understanding and peace at Danforth Chapel also will be held during the meeting.
A University budget of $8,386,-266 has been recommended to the Kansas Legislature by Gov. Fred Hall. This is an increase of $920,-425 over the budget for the current year.
While there is an increase in the total recommended expenditures, the amount that the governor is requesting for legislative appropriations is $249,941 less than that asked by the University.
The total expenditures authorized for 1956 is $7,465,841.
Gov. Hall also cut the University's request for capital improvements (special items) from $496,000 to $245,000, a cut of $251,000.
The total appropriations requested for general operations is $6,954,426,
an increase of $769,117 over this year's allocation of $6,185,511.
Under general operation expenditure requests, the largest single item is for salaries and wages. The request for $4,982,157 is $612,217 larger than the $4,369,940 authorized for the 1956 budget.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said that the increase in students this year and the expected increase next year made possible the increases in appropriations both in operating expenses and in salaries and wages.
Under special items, a request for $65,000 for parking on the southwest part of the campus was the largest. A $40,000 request for a laboratory for the Geological Survey at Wichita was the second largest. Two $30,000 requests were made, one for a supplementary fund for the Music Building and one for the repair of the stone work of the Art Museum.
Appropriations recommended by the governor.
1957
1956 Governor's
Current Budget
Year Next Year
Governor's recommendation for 1957 $8,386,266
Authorized for current year (1956) 7,465,841
Total increase 920,425
Increase in appropriations 769,115
General Operation
Legislative appropriations
$6,185.311 $6,954.426
General fees 1,259.330 1,414.725
Interest 21,000 17,115
Taxes $7,648.330 $8,985.230
Total data not include 747,843,941 $38,368,286
Above total data not include 1,015
improven or self-sustaining activities
(such as dormitories, health service,
sponsored research, etc.)
University request for 1957 $7,199,367
Governor's recommendation for
1957 6,954,426
Difference 244,941
Capital Projects (Special Items)
all from legislative appropriation
Requested by University 496,000
Recommended by governor 245,000
Difference 251,000
Appropriations Recommended
By Governor
Available
Current For
Year Next Year
General Operation
Saturdays and wednes-
es $4,369,940 $4,982,157
Other operating expeditures 1,256,676 1,343,361
Geological survey 298,208 340,322
General research 245,490 273,586
Firemanship training 10,000 10,000
Police school 5,000 5,000
Total Special Items
Total $6,185.311 $6,954.426
items
Repair copying of Strong Hall $ 5.000
Storage for Geological Survey 20,000
Parking, SW campus 65,000
Laboratory for Geological Survey (at Wichita) 40,000
Supplementary—music building 30,000
Plans for remodeling Blake Hall 20,000
Enlarge Isotopes Laboratory 10,000
Repair roof of Engineering Laboratory 10,000
Repair stone work of Art Museum 30,000
Repair windows of library stack 15,000
Sub-total $245,000