UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949
Seven Highway Bills Proposed
Topeka, Feb. 9—(U.P.) A vital series of bills—one that will cost Kansas gasoline consumers and motor vehicles owners an additional 10 and one-half million dollars—will be introduced into the senate today.
Sen. Riley MacGregor, (R—Medicine Lodge) highway committee chieftan, also proposes in the bills to adopt a refund system on non-highway use motor fuel to replace the present exemption system.
The series, consisting of seven bills, will provide a financing plan for the gigantic Kansas highway program which is expected to be undertaken on July 1, 1950.
The program is designed to improve state, county and city roads and streets with the assistance of 19 million dollars in federal funds which are expected to be appropriated between now and 1953.
To finance the program gasoline consumers will pay a five cent a gallon gas tax effective July 1 which will be reduced to four cents on July 1, 1951 and truck and automobile owners will pay about 30 per cent more for license tags.
The current gasoline tax is three cents with an additional one-cent non-exempt gas tax which will be automatically repealed if the new highway bills are adopted.
"The refund system will produce about 2 million dollars a year additional revenue." Sen. MacGregor explained.
The increase will be brought about primarily by failure to apply or refunds, it was explained.
Other bills in the series of seven will repeal a statute which allows counties to pay the cost of bridges on benefit districts roads only when the cost does not exceed two thousand dollars and a reduction of oil inspection fees from three cents to one-half cent per barrel.
Students Invited To Dove Meeting
All liberal minded students are invited by Henry Pinault, treasurer of the Dove to attend a meeting of the Dove staff Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in 9, Frank Strong. He emphasized that anyone interested in writing for the magazine or selling it may join the staff. The editor-in-chief will be selected at the meeting. Deadline for articles will be set and the date
The editor-in-chief will be selected at the meeting. Deadline for articles will be set and the date of sale will be established.
Campus Life Trains Leaders
"The best training for a leader is here on the campus," Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women, told students at A.W.S. leadership workshop Tuesday.
"The ideal leader should look alert, energetic and alive. We will accept certain people as leaders if they have a breadth 'k' of interest," Miss Peterson told the group.
The leadership workshop will close tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. when Miss Thela Mills, dean of women at University of Missouri, will speak on "Psychology of Leadership." Miss Mills will be guest of honor at the A.W.S. evaluation dinner at 5 p.m. in the Student Union.
Democrat Club Meets Tonight In Pine Room
The first meeting of the semester for the K.U. Young Democrats will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union. All members and interested persons are urged to attend, as there will be an election of officers. There will also be a discussion on the part that the K.U. Young Democrats club will have during the meeting of the Kansas Democratic party at the Washington Day banquet, Monday, Feb. 21, in Topeka.
Dewey Sponsors New GOP Deal
Washington, Feb. 9. —(U.P.)-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey stands sponsor
for what some persons will
regard as a left of center Republici-
can party program. He believes the
G.O.P. must adopt it or die.
Dewey was principal speaker here last night at the first party rally in a weeklong and nationwide Lincoln day observance.
Dewey scarcely referred to congress and detoured carefully around the hot Taft-Hartley act which has congress in fits. His text was the 1948 Republican presidential platform which he said committed all hands to a broad program of social welfare, largely originating in the Roosevelt administrations.
Dewey said the 1948 platform planks had marked the G.O.P. as a liberal progressive party.
10 be entirely specific," he continued, "they say and mean that our party has solemnly declared that we believe wholeheartedly in unemployment insurance, in old-age assistance on an increased basis, in broader social security generally, in slum clearance and public housing in public development of our water power resources, in farm price supports, in vigorous protection of the rights of labor.
"All these are good. They are necessary. They are right. I believe that we as representatives of our party are bound by those principles and are under a duty to carry them out."
Dewey said he spoke bluntly as a politician who sought no public office. He accused the party of trying for years to gloss over a wide open split. He practically invited Republicans who would oppose the party platform to take a walk. He also repudiated the other Republican extreme which he said would match the new deal or even try to go beyond it at unknown expense.
Chicago—(UP)—The nation's first automobile shopping center, where customers can buy while seated in their cars, will be started here next spring.
Future Customer Will Buy Everything While Seated Comfortably In His Car
Plans for the center were announced by a real estate firm and an architectural and engineering group.
There will be pick-up window for packages, sales windows for purchases by motorists, drive-in centers for making telephone calls, and carry-out dinners prepared by the shopping center's restaurant.
The project, to be known as the Lincoln Road Shopping center, will extend more than 1,000 feet along a main artery on the city's northwest side. It will facilitate shopping by homeward bound suburbanities.
Fisher said a typical woman shopper's tour through the center would be like this:
The architect, Howard T. Fisher, said motorists will be able to cash checks, pick up laundry and dry cleaning, and buy items which do not require selection, all without leaving their cars.
"First," he said, "she may drive in and, without getting out of her car, cash a check at the currency exchange and leave a pair of shoes to be re-heeled at the shoe repair shop, and a prescription to be filled at the drug store.
Two-level construction and one-way drives will eliminate cross-traffic within the center for both automobiles and pedestrians. A projecting canopy along the frontage of each building will shelter pedestrian shoppers from inclement weather, and heated sidewalks will melt snow as fast as it falls.
"She may then park her car conveniently nearby to choose a scarf at the apparel shop, get a manicure at the beauty shop and do anything else that demands other than a mere quick selection.
"She may, then, if she cares to, select at the super-market all of her purchases for the coming weekend and have them conveyed to a pickup window on the lower level
"Her next stop, upon returning to her car, is simply to drive through the auto-shopping lanes, pick up the shoes she left, perhaps buy a quart of ice cream and a house plant, and have her purchases at the supermarket loaded directly into her car."
11,475 Enrolled In Extension Work.
Enrollment in extension classes of the University were 50 per cent higher in 1948 than in 1947 Gerald Pearson, extension director, said Monday night.
Speaking before members of Phi Delta Kappa, national education fraternity at a smoker in the Kansas room of the Student Union building. Mr. Pearson said that last year the extension served 11,475 persons in 218 classes. These classes, held in 52 Kansas towns, served professional, homemaking and avocational groups.
Luther A. R. Hall and Thomas C. Bean, graduate students, have recently been elected corresponding members of the Peruvian Academy of Skatological Sciences. They were elected because of their outstanding work on osmophoric groups in organic molecules.
Graduate Students Elected
Fencers Challenge Buffs
The Fencing club has challenged University of Colorado and Kansas State college teams to informal meets, Norman Ellis, president announced Tuesday. Neither team has accepted yet.
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