1960
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 26, 1960
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48th Year, No.12
Candidates Give Unified Replies About Education
TOPEKA — (UFI) — The Kansas State Teachers Association has released answers by gubernatorial candidates to questions on school issues raised by the faculty group.
The teachers asked if the candidates would favor:
1. Legislation which will encourage the formation of school administrative units of sufficient pupil population and valuation to provide excellent school programs for all children and youth and efficient use of tax resources and teachers.
William H. Addington, John Anderson Jr. and McDill Huck Boyd all answered yes.
2. Enactment of a foundation program of state participation in school finance which will provide at least 40 per cent of total public school costs from indirect tax sources.
All replied in the affirmative.
Addington said yes, Anderson said the legislature certainly should give it serious consideration, and Boyd said he would want to evaluate the program with respect to other needs.
3. Inclusion of kindergarten pupils and public junior college students in the state's school finance program.
4. Full finance of budget and building requests of the state Board of Regents for the state's colleges and universities. Addington and Anderson replied yes and Boyd said the board should "do all it can" to fully finance the requests.
5. Creation of a retirement system for college teachers and administrators.
All replied in the affirmative.
All replied in the affirmative. 6. Action leading to appointment of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction by a state board of education.
All replied yes.
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7. Action leading to the appointment of a county superintendent by a county or intermediate unit board.
All said they would favor such action.
Veterans to Sign Forms Next Week
Veteran's certification forms for the entire period of July 1-August 6 will be signed August 4, 5 or 6 in the office of the Veterans Service.
No certification will be made for the month of July only. The one certification necessary will be for all of July and the first six days of August.
KU Students Win Awards
Two students in the chemical engineering sequence of the KU School of Engineering have been awarded $500 scholarships for the 1960-61 school year.
Darryl S. Roberts, Wichita senior, is the recipient of the Frontier Chemical Company Scholarship and John E. McElhiney, Aurora, Mo., senior, will receive the Universal Oil Products Company Scholarship.
Roberts, who also held a scholarship in the School of Engineering last year, is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity, and was president of Carruth Hall last semester.
Both are annual awards.
McElhiney is a member of Sigma Tau, national honor society in engineering, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He has served on the Engineering Student Council.
AFROTC Staff Gains and Loses
The Air Force ROTC unit at the University gained and lost an officer this week for its summer complement.
Major Elery W. Watson returned from Webb AFB, Big Springs, Texas, where he had been administrative officer to the Air Force ROTC training unit.
Capt. K. L. Shook left Thursday for William AFB, Chandler, Arizona where he will have a 6-week assignment. During four weeks he will be a tactical officer for the ROTC camp at which many cadets from KU will take their summer training.
Nixon, Rocky Join to Whip New Opposition
International Amphitheater, Chicago — (UPI) — Richard M. Nixon joined forces with Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller at the Republican Convention yesterday in an effort to quell a right-wing rebellion against their liberal platform policies.
Nixon, already assured of the presidential nomination, arrived on the Chicago battleground shortly after the GOP's 27th national convention opened in the midst of a surprise row over civil rights, defense, and foreign policy. Temporarily at least the GOP unity theme was shattered.
Nixon also was under pressure from a group led by William G Stratton of Illinois to let the convention hold a "wide open" contest for his vice presidential running mate. The governors did not want the man who appeared to be the favorite for the post—United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
The convention's opening session got underway at 12:15 p.m., edd., with a round of speech-making and with the 1.331 delegates in a mood to enjoy themselves. The first day's highlight was a speech last night by the GOP's grand old man, former President Herbert Hoover.
Nixon and Rockefeller pledged to fight on the convention floor if necessary against conservative Republicans who threatened to scuffle the strong civil rights policy laid down by the two leaders at their secret New York conference last week.
Weather
For the period today through Saturday temperatures will average near normal west and 2 to 5 degrees below normal east. A little warmer eastern sections in mid-week.
KING AND QUEEN—Ronald Best of Kansas City, Mo., and Anne Kepler of Tulsa, Okla., were named king and queen of the 23rd Midwestern Music and Art Camp Saturday night.
Dr. Matzke Reports Family All Safe Now
"All safe," was the complete message of a cablegram from Dr. Howard A. Matzke, University professor of anatomy who was forced to leave the Congo by the recent violence within the young republic.
The cablegram was received at 10 Monday morning by Irwin L. Baird, acting chairman of the KU anatomy department. The cablegram was sent at 10 a.m. Uganda time.
Dr. Matzke and a U.S. Army officer also doing research at the Institute, drove overland to Kampala. They brought scientific instruments from the Institute in a truck.
Dr. Matzke's wife and two children, who were with him at the Institute for Scientific Research in central Africa, were flown to safety in Kampala, Uganda, last week.
The overland trip required about four days, according to a letter Mrs. Matzke wrote July 16 to Harold Scheve of Lawrence soon after she and the children arrived in Uganda. "We hope that sometime in the next few days we will hear more about Dr. Matzke's plans," Dr. Baird said.
In her letter to Scheve, Mrs. Matzke mentioned the possibility of continuing their research at Makerere College in Kampala.
Dr. Matzke was doing research in the Congo on the central nervous system of mammals, which promised to be helpful in research on certain human diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, tremors and forms of paresis.
He and his family went to the Congo about the middle of June so that his research could be conducted in an area where experimental mammals usually are readily available.
Early reports of difficulties suffered by White citizens and visitors to the Congo early in July caused concern in Lawrence over the welfare of the Matzke family.
The University early attempted to get information on the family through the U.S.State Department, but those efforts failed.
One letter was received in Lawrence from Dr. Matzke dated July 3 — some four days after the Congo uprisings began — reporting that no violence was present in the Lwiro area, the location of the institute.
A local "ham" radio operator also attempted to make contact with amateur radio operators in the central African region, but he, too, met with failure.
U.S. Levels Piracy Blast
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI) The United States accused Russia yesterday of a "criminal and reckless act of piracy" in shooting down an RB-47 reconnaissance plane. It said a Soviet fighter plane tried to force the RB-47 onto Soviet territory before it was shot down over international waters.
U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said secret U. S. electronic devices based in England tracked the plane throughout its entire flight. He asked if Russia was seeking a pretext for war.
In a formal resolution Lodge challenged Moscow to submit the case to investigation by a commission of the United States and Russia and a third party acceptable to both, or to take it before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Russia immediately rejected the demand.
The United States wanted the commission to inspect the site, examine the wreckage and question the survivors and other witnesses.
Familiar Face Returns to KU
The Rev. Donovan E. Hull, new director of the Wesley Foundation for Methodist students at the University of Kansas, is no newcomer to the KU campus.
He received the degree bachelor of arts from the University in 1952 with a major in zoology and during his four years here was a leader in campus activities.
He joined the varsity cheerleading squad as a sophomore and became head cheerleader the following year. He was president of the YMCA and of the senior class, active in Wesley Foundation and a member of Sachem, senior men's honorary society.
He is also active in the National Methodist Student Movement and will serve as dean of the regional MSM Conference at DeKalb, Ill., Aug. 29-Sept.4.
As director of Wesley Foundation, he succeeds Dr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Price, who retired June 30 after 40 years' service to Methodist students.
His relationship to the Prices, however, is not only professional. His mother's brother's wife, Mrs. Ethel Miller of Wellington, is the sister of Mrs. Price.
Before coming to KU this summer, the Rev. Mr. Hull was director of Weslev Foundation at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He was previously associate director of the United Christian Fellowship, an ecumenical group at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
In addition to his studies at KU he holds the degree bachelor of divinity from Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, Ill., and has done graduate study at the Harvard Divinity School.
His wife, Dixie, is a graduate of Greensboro College, N.C., attended Garrett and Northwestern University at Evanston and received her master's degree from Northwestern. Before their marriage in 1954, she was director of Christian Education at the Broadstreet Methodist Church, Statesville, N.C.
The couple has two sons, David, 2. and Robert, nine months.
The Rev. Mr. Hull is the son of the Rev. Ernest Hull, pastor of Zion Methodist Church in Wichita. He was born in Sublette, attended schools in Liberal and Kingman and was graduated from Clay County Community High School, Clay Center, in 1948.
Film to Feature Population Growth
"Population Explosion," one of a CBS Reports series, and "Space Scientist," introducing the man who designed the space pioneer capsule, will be the featured films shown at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon in 3 Bailey Hall.
"Population Explosion" gives a close and sobering look at the grave consequences of the abnormal high current rate of growth of the world's population, which may double in the next 40 years.