KU Building Bill May Be Vetoed
TOPEKA—(UPI) — Gov. George Docking indicated today that he is considering vetting a bill to appropriate $3.9 million to accelerate building programs at three state schools.
The bill would allow new buildings sooner than scheduled at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Ft. Hays State College
Senate President pro tem Paul Wunsch (R-Kingman) said he favors keeping the legislature in session until midnight if Gov. Docking does not act on the measure before then.
Gov. Docking said that if he does veto the measure, he will be "conscious of timing." He apparently meant that he will try to time his veto so that the Legislature will not have time to try and override him.
The session must adjourn at midnight. It is limited to 30 calendar days. If the governor held the bill without signing or vetoing it until after midnight, it would be automatically killed.
The House met briefly this morning and approved a resolution memorializing Congress to establish a national monument at Ft. Scott.
A routine bill allowing the intangibles tax to continue for a year also was passed.
Wunsch said yesterday the catch-all "omnibus" bill will be introduced in the Senate today. That chamber meets in the afternoon.
A bill to reduce the state income tax by 20 per cent is ready for debate today, following yesterday's swift approval of it by a 34-5 vote by the Senate and action in the House, which emergencied it to second reading.
The two chambers acted only hours after the House failed to override Gov. Docking's veto of a bill to increase the sales tax residue by $7.5 million, aimed at local property tax reduction.
The Senate yesterday also killed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to raise the compensation of legislators. That was the final constitutional amendment resolution on the legislative calendars.
There is still room for one more on the 1960 ballot, which may offer three such proposals to the voters.
The income tax cut which passed the Senate would permit individual
taxpayers, but not corporations, to take 20 per cent off their state income tax payments this year and in the future.
Sen. Howard Immel (R-Iola) estimated it would be a tax reduction of $4.6 million. Those who already have paid their 1959 state income tax would get a 20 per cent refund
To finance the rebates, $5 million was set aside.
Gov. Docking said that although he had not seen the bill, "It's the first bona fide tax reduction the Republicans have put in this session."
Docking said the legislature had passed appropriations of about $28 million over his recommended budget and that appropriations now, with his vetoes and the pending college building bill, are about $9 million over his recommendations.
The Senate sent Gov. Docking seven bills. The most notable one would:
- Appropriate $50,000 for additional land at the Agricultural Hall of Fame site near Bonner Springs so the hall could be seen from the Kansas turnpike.
- Require the State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission to list licensed boats with county assessors for taxation.
- Appropriate $201,391 to veterans' organizations, the state library and the Kansas Traveling Library Commission. A conference committee restored $2,000 for veterans of World War I and the House accepted the committee report earlier in the day.
Weather Will Be Cold and Windy
Northeast—Cold wave warning today and tonight. Snow and strong northerly winds 30 miles per hour causing blowing snow today. Much colder today with temperatures holding steady all day. Snow ending this afternoon or early evening. Partly cloudy and colder tonight with lows 5 northern counties to 15 southern counties. Thursday partly cloudy and continued cold.
The KU weather bureau reported last night's low was 22 degrees with an accumulation of 2 inches of snow. The wind today is south-southeast at 14 miles per hour.
Oscar Stauffer Gets W.A. White Award
Oscar Stauffer, president of Stauffer Publications, Inc., Topeka, became the seventh recipient of the William Allen White award for journalistic merit today.
Rolla A. Clymer, editor of the El Dorado Times, announced the honor awarded to a "Kansas newspaper-man who exemplifies the William Allen White ideals in journalism and in service to his profession and community."
The presentation was made at a luncheon of the White Foundation trustees meeting at the University of Kansas on the late Emporia editor's birthday.
More Interpretation Wanted In his acceptance speech Mr. Strauffer called for more objective and interpretative reporting and continued emphasis on a sincere editorial page.
He said that in 1910 the population was approximately 92 million with 2,600 dailies, while today the population has doubled with only 1,748 daily newspapers. He added that 50 years ago 42.8 per cent of the daily newspapers were non-competitive; today it is 94 per cent.
The veteran newspaperman, who went to work for William Allen White as a cub reporter on the Emporia Gazette, for $5 a week, interpreted and defended the trend to one-newspaper cities.
Papers Must Adapt
"Newspapers like everything else must adhere to the law of life: change, adapt or die. And like the turtle of old that came out of the sea to live on dry land, so you'll see
The Topeka publisher said that we may deplore the diminishing number of papers, but this is not all bad.
newspapers adapt to the conditions, he continued.
"Why has all this come to pass? I think it can be answered in one word: Economics," Mr. Stauffer exclaimed.
Mr. Stauffer predicted these radical changes in the mechanical production of the newspaper will be made—the use of teletype and improved technology in most departments, more accent on accuracy, fewer political organs and more independent newspapers. He added that future publishers will use more pages which have been typed up, photographed and then run off the presses.
"In cities with non-competitive newspapers one will find as a usual rule the publishers are more responsible and more keenly alert to their obligations."
His publishing empire now consists of thirteen daily newspapers, seven farm weekly papers, three radio stations and one television station.
Radical Changes Predicted
His First Paper in 1915
Mr. Stauffer bought his first newspaper in 1915 and completed his biggest purchase in 1957. His first publication was the Peabody Gazette, Peabody, Kan. And two and one-half years ago he bought Capper Publications, Inc., a multi-million dollar firm.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1960
Cuban Situation Termed 'Brainwashing' by Dubois
JULES DUROIS
"The free press of the Americas has a grave mission . . ."
Dubois Gets Fiery Welcome at Talk
Jules Dubois was given a Havana-style welcome when he walked into the Spanish Club meeting as the guest speaker yesterday.
Immediately on entering the room he encountered the wrath of Cuban students who denounced his role in the coverage of the Cuban revolt.
The students pounced on Mr. Dubois, accusing him and the American press of trying to destroy the Castro government.
Mr. Dubois, who is here to deliver the 11th annual William Allen White lecture, kept his temper until one student accused him of being friendly toward Rafael Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator.
That did it.
Tempers Flare
Dubois, Latin American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, struggled to keep his composure. Anger flared in his quick reply.
"In the first place I have been banned from that country since 1957 and in the second place I am not the friend of any dictator anywhere."
A student demanded to know why the United States press attacked the Cuban land reforms. The student said the Cuban land reforms were not communistic, but were like the land reforms in Japan and Viet Nam.
Mr. Dubois said the United States does not attack land reforms and it never has. He also said the land reform in Cuba is not the same as the ones in Japan and Viet Nam.
Many Cuban students seemed unhappy at Mr. DuBois' report of the dangers of communism in Cuba. Their feeling was that since Batista had been ousted a year ago, Castro has done much for Cuba.
Mr. DuBois read an excerpt from the Prensa Latina, a Cuban newspaper, which outlined the reasons for the resignation of the deputy chief of a zone of the agrarian reform.
Quotes Cuban Paper
The Presna Latina charged that the people were not given full title to their land.
Mr. Dubois also read a letter written by Manuel F. Artime, a past president of Cuba, which made two major points:
1. The Cuban government will eventually take over all industry and business. 2. The Cuban regime objected to the manner in which Maj. Hubert Mataos was arrested because he protested against communist infiltration in the Cuban Army.
When Mr. Dubois was asked if the kind of communism which is present in Cuba were dangerous to the United States, he said:
"There is only one kind of communism, and that is found in Russia and China."
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Jules Dubois, Latin American correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, this afternoon called the situation in Cuba "the most concerted and concentrated brainwashing operation in contemporary Latin American history."
Lose Freedom
Mr. Dubois delivered the 11th annual William Allen White lecture in Fraser Theater after he had been presented the White Foundation's 1960 national citation for journalistic merit.
The veteran correspondent pointed out that when a tryrannical dictator takes over a country the loss of the people's freedom and the loss of freedom of the press go hand in hand. In his speech the Chicago reporter
"The Communists and political demagogues have made Latin America a fertile field for class warfare and with it ultimately oppress the people and stifle liberty.
"Every demagogic dictator who whips up class hatred among the masses and attempts to destroy the system of private enterprise strikes out first against freedom of the press . . . to hide any exposure by a vigilant press of their arbitrary acts against personal and political liberties."
Mr. Dubois developed the history of the fight for freedom of the press in Latin America since its beginning in 1839. He told of individual struggles in nine countries and concluded his history with a blast at the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba.
"Castro's revolution has seized every newspaper in the provinces of Cuba as well as most of them in Havana. This is the man who promised the Cuban people unrestricted freedom of the press," he said.
The reporter said that Castro's victory brought an end to a subsidized press but initiated a system that every day bears more and more identification with that which was employed by Peron in Argentina to end press liberty.
News Agencies Are Peronists
The lecturer emphasized the point that the executives, personnel and correspondents of Castro's news agency are mostly Peronists. In fact, Mr. Dubois said Castro's organization is not unlike Peron's at all.
He exclaimed that our government has acquired global headaches in assuming the political, economic and military responsibility in the struggle against the menace of communism.
He continued by saying:
"Today the Communists and their tools have been endeavoring to drive the minds and hearts of the Cuban people in the most devastating, ceaseless and concentrated 'Hate America' brainwashing operation in contemporary history."
Quotes From Report
Mr. Dubois, head of the Inter-American Press Assn., committee on the freedom of the press, quoted frequently from the committee's 1958 report. On one instance he said: "The free press of the Americas has a grave mission. Freedom must go hand in hand with responsibility, Democracy can never be any stronger than the ethics, practices and eternal vigilance of those who have the responsibility to preserve it."
White Was Interested
Mr. Dubois linked William Allen White's interest in Latin America while he was still editor of the Emporia Gazette to the present-day situation.
He said that if White were here today he would "raise his respected voice and warn the people of our country of the pincer movement that is being directed from Moscow in alliance with Peiping to attempt to destroy our way of life and the liberties of the people of Latin America."