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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Total Reductions
On Frat Property
Are Near $100,000
State Board Decides Evaluations Are Too High Following Appeal by Greeks
Predations of nearly $100,000 in valuations placed on University Greek letter houses, were made by the State tax commission at Topela in mid-August, following an appeal from the final action of the Douglas county commissioners.
This was the year, under Kansas laws, for the assessing of real estate. The Douglas county assessors turned in $815,000 on behalf of the securities of $913,100 on land and $728,730 on buildings and improvements. The organizations at once presented the buildings assessment ascertained to be worth $827,730 equalization cut the amount to $387,730.
Following are the assessed land values and the building values as equilized by the District of Columbia, as is finally reduced by the state board of equilibration.
When new valuations were placed on Douglas county real estate this spring the fraternity properties were also ransacked. Land values, which tainted $18,135 not protested by the fraternities, since the board of equalization had decided to reduce all Lawrence real estate 40 per cent from the $25,730 installed the $28,730 on buildings too high and added a $50 per cent reduction. The board of equalization agreed that inequalities had been shown, and made reductions varying from $2,500 on one surety down to smaller amounts, with a total reduction of almost $200,609 to $687,750. The organizations appealed to the state tax department to their complaint we received in Tampa.
impose taxes carries the right to remit taxes, and the cancellation was permitted to stand.
Baker University organizations did not file protest on their 1234 valuations.
Building Value by State Tax Commission 42,925
Building Value by Board of Equification 84,255
Sigma Chi 15,350
Phi Gemma Delta 4,000
Chi Omega 1,300
Kappa KappaGamma 2,400
Alpha Theta 500
Sigma Phi Epsilon 700
Alpha Xu Delta 600
Alpha Tau Pi 2,600
Phi Kappa Pi 3,000
Phi Kappa Psi 3,620
Alpha Delta Psi 3,500
Alpha Psi Delta 1,000
Beta Theta Pi 3,200
Sigma Nu 6,000
Sigma Kua 1,900
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 7,075
Alpha Omicron I 1,500
Kappa Alpha Theta 1,250
Alpha Theta I 1,250
Pi Kappa Alpha 5,800
Alpha Chi Omega 2,400
Pi Beta I 1,000
Alpha Gamma Delta 2,340
Theta Tau 2,000
Phi Kappa 3,000
Ceiba 4,500
Delta Zeta 1,950
Delta Sigma 2,300
Gamma Club 1,500
Phi Alpha Delta 1,300
Delta Sigma Lambda 600
Sigma Alpha Mu 1,700
Phi Kappa Pi 1,100
Phi Kappa Pi 500
37,000 31,823 34,250 34,500 37,500 32,900 35,000 34,5
Murray Smith, and Dorothy Dixon,
graduates from the University in 1953
have been given permanent appointment
to the Department at Dalton Hospital,
Brosdale.
Bill Blowers spent the first part of his summer as a life guard at a swimming pool, but later gave this up to enter the trucking business. Bill has returned with high ambitions for his pet "The Sour Owl."
$88,915
TAX CONTEST LONG CONTINUED
Properties in Douglas county went on the books at an aggregate of slightly more than $1,000,000, with approximately $84 million. The Greek letter organizations took their ease to court, and after three years the supreme court of Kansas sustained the business of Vance that the property was taxable.
For 15 years prior to 1820, fraternity real property at Kansas schools had not been taxed, although several efforts have been made in the legislature to pass a law prohibiting the tax rolls. Brown of Douglas in 1919, Morgan of Douglas in 1923, and Broadie of Edwards in 1925 introduced such bills, but none was finally passed, the Greek letter organizations presenting the papers were an adequate substitute for dormitories provided by the state.
Three Year's Litigation Results in Overthrow of Exemption Law
In 1830, the Douglas County commissioners directed the county clerk to place on the rolls the fraternity properties at the University of Kassam and of the College of Honors. Each county did the same for fraternities at Manhattan.
$493,720 $589,756
Decision of the Kansas Tax Commission on the appeal of 35 frustrations and securities, from Douglass to Lester, who now four-year fight of those organizations at the University of Kansas, first to escape taxation, and then later to have the volunteers redirected to a point which is in their own property values in the county.
The 1932 legislature cancelled the three years of delinquent taxes that had accumulated during the litigation, and although the Douglas County Taxpayers' League had urged the office of treasurer to issue a letter of advice and endeavor to collect the delinquent taxes. Attorney General Roy Boleton holdt that the right to
NEW DEAL CALLED SUCCESS IN ARTICLE BY E. K. LINDLEY
The leading article in the current weekly magazine section of the Christian Science Monitor is a discussion of governmental policies, entitled "Is the New Deal a Success?" The answer "Yes" is given by Ernest K. Lindley and "No" by James True, publisher of "Industrial Control Reports."
Mr. Lindley, of Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley, is on the Washington staff of the New York Herald-Tribune, and he is also the Honorary Rosewell Revue First "First Phase."
Margaret Roberta, f133, will teach ar in the Ottawa school system this year.
'Good Old Summer Time Had 50 100-Degree Days
Heat Breaks All Records at University; Rainfall Still Deficient
The summer of 1034 was the hottest summer on record, according to C. J. Pesny, associate professor of geology at the University of Kansas and Lawrence University, Professor Pesny has access to the University records which go back 67 years.
Records show that there were 50 days of temperatures of 100 degrees or over. Two of these were in May, 10 in June, 22 in July, and 16 in August. The highest previous mark was 30 in 1930 and 18 in 1933.
There were 83 days in which the temperature was 90 degrees or above. In 1831, 68 days had temperatures above 90 degrees. The normal is 37 such days. Four days during the summer had an average temperature for the 24-hour period of 97 degrees or more, and for 46 consecutive days the temperature was below 90 degrees. During the period from Aug. 5 to 11 the new all-time best record of 114 degrees was set.
The record of the months shows many more new records. The normal for May, for instance, is 64.134 days. This year it was 67.78, the third hottest May on record, and subtracted by 68.12 in 1902 and 70.50 in 1890. The maximum for the month was 102 degrees, whereas the previous mark was 97 in 1913.
a normal mean temperature for June is 72.35, but this year it was 81.87, the hottest June on record. The maximum temperature for June was 107 degrees. July's average temperature was more than twice that of ten degrees higher.
After 12 record breaking days of heat in the first part of August, the weather changed and temperatures were below normal for the reminder of the month. The temperature in the meantime was more than eight degrees below this year's average.
Professor Poey's figures show that, through August the rainfall for the year was 14.50, deficient by 11.19 inches for the year. June has the second least rainfall on record. The three months of the summer had the highest rainfall. For the years 1932, 1933 and the eight months of 1934, Lawrence was 22.71 inches on short rain.
Hill Society
Alpha Gamma Delta announces the engagement of Ruth Gregory, fa34, to Robert Goulet, of Decatur II. Miss Jill Meyer will conduct work in the University this fall.
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Rosalie Conrad, Kansas City, Mo.
and Elizabeth Cox, Overbrook, are guests at the Delta Zeta house.
Sigma Kappa entertained pledges and alumni guests at a buffet supper at the chapter house last evening.
"Imagine, seeing you here." Haikynedee as the expressive may be it seemed the logical thing to do when I discovered the red street car up and down Mount Orcad, squatting on a cement foundation in the out-steps of Emporia, Kan, where it now serves as the office of a combined filling-station and beer garden.
Sure enough, there she was with the K.U. sign still displayed above her front window. It was like suddenly meeting an alien. She spoke in English. We had to talk about, for although she is eighty miles from the rock chalk hill where she served on faithfully for years, her niece still lies with her "D" and its inscription.
"Well how about George, is he still there? He was so good about holding back those vile automobiles while I made him into a building," the car said reflectively.
It was pathetic, finding her there, out of date and no longer it for active duty—and yet, like an old veteran, she has forced herself into believing that her removal had been unfair and that she should still be caned. She would have been a boating oil and fuel for the likes of these gun-powered vehicles which took her place.
"Yeah, George is there," I insured her, "and so as your little stone depot down behind Green hall, but your track and the trolley wire have been removed.
"Do you think they miss me?" she inquired hopefully.
"Well, er--sure they do, ole timer. Why sure, they misle you. I could see that she was deeply hurt because I had hesitated in answering.
"And the way it goes," she meowed. "Did you notice what they did with my seats? There they are over there in the beer garden. Ooh, mek a-day. But you know, she added proudly, "these seats are just easy to hold." And holds in the baskets are a great help to our customers after they get two of our 28-count after
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Faithful Campus Trolley Spends Declining Years in Beer Garden Role
"I imagine, seeing you here!"
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The committee now has over 100 members in cities throughout the state, and at its maximum should contain over 200.
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