Daily Hansan
57th Year. No. 68
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1960
SELF PORTRAIT—Thomas P. Coleman, Wichita graduate student, stands beside a self portrait which is on exhibit at the student art show at the Music and Dramatic Arts building. The portrait is a woodcut print. See page 3 for a story about the exhibit.
'Brigadoon' Cast Named For Pacific Area Tour
The 16-member cast will leave July 15 for a tour through Japan, Okianwa, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Guam and Hawaii, returning to Kansas by Sept. 2. They will give 30 performances in 49 days.
The cast of the overseas tour production of "Brigadoon" was announced today by Lewin Goff, director of University Theatre and manager of the tour.
Director of the musical will be Sidney Berger. Brooklyn, N. Y., graduate student. Berger directed the campus performance of "Brigadoon" in November.
Other members of the original cast who were selected for the overseas tour and their character parts are:
Sara Maxwell, Columbus sophomore, Fiona Maclaren; Harry Hopkins, Duncanville, Tex., senior, Charlie Dalrymple; Larry Sneegas, Lawrence junior, Harry Beaton; Tomi Yadon, Lawrence senior, Jean MacClaren; Joyce Malicky, Baldwin junior, Meg Brockie; Bruce Gardner, Lawrence senior, Stuart Dalrymple; Edgar Dittemore, McLouth senior, Sandy Dean; and Philip Harris, Columbus sophomore Archie Beaton.
Chorus members of the production are Marva Lou Powell, Topeka
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Regents Requested 7 Per Cent
Docking Asks Faculty Pay Hike of 3 Per Cent
Gov. George Dockling today recommended a 3 per cent salary increase for state university and college tenchers in his budget address.
This is 3 per cent more than the budget hearing committee recommended in November, but 4 per cent less than the State Board of Regents recommended in their request.
Gov. Docking recommended no increase at all for the administrative staff.
His budget address opened the budget hearing session of the Kansas Legislature which will adopt the final budget for all state institutions. The final budget is subject to Gov. Docking's veto.
In the State Board of Regents' budget proposal a fiat 7 per cent increase was recommended. The state budget director requested no increase. The Regents' proposal covered all unclassified personnel: faculty, administrators, library staff, and research staff.
Reduction Services In commenting on the reduction
Reduction Serious
Governor Wants Cut in Sales Tax
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Docking chided the legislature for its opposition to him in the past, especially in over-riding his veto in the budget session of 1958 and passing a one-half per cent increase in the then 2 per cent sales tax.
The governor also asked for a permanent one cent cutback in the state gasoline tax and proposed that the trucking industry make up the penny by paying a ton-mile tax.
"It is not necessary for me to tell
Gov. George Docking asked the legislature today to reduce the state sales tax by a full one cent for one year and to approve a record $239 million budget.
The governor's budget was expected to meet stout opposition in the Republican-controlled legislature, especially since his main proposals were turned down when Docking recommended them in other sessions.
Theis to Address KU Demos Tonight
Frank Theis, national committeeman and state Democratic chairman, will address a meeting of the KU Young Democrats at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union.
Mr. Theis will speak on "The Budget Session and the 1960 Conventions." All interested students may attend.
Epoch of College Bowl Quiz Ends With Effigy Hanging
KU's College bowl quiz team has gone the way of the nation's unfortunate football coaches.
Campus pranksters hoisted a dummy into a tree in front of Watson Library early this morning. The dummy was labeled "College Bowl Team."
They lost—and they were hanged in effigy.
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This four-member group may have been one of the shortest-lived teams in KU history, but the publicity it received gave it prestige equal to that of other teams which represent the University.
Campus police took the effigy down about 8:15 this morning. Chief
After all, a KU team has to be well-known before anyone will waste time hanging it in effigy.
"The team is a wonderful bunch of kids and reflects credit on the University."
Will anything be done about reprimanding the pranksters if they are caught?
In a more serious vein he explained that he was "unhappy" over the effigy hanging.
Joe G. Skillman said it was just a prank.
One of the team members, Elinor Hadley, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
James E. Seaver, associate professor of history and coach of the team on its first trip, chuckled over the incident.
"I presume that all coaches and teams are hanged in effigy before long." Prof. Seaver said.
"I can't say about that," said Chief Skillman.
"Actually I do not have any reaction to it at all. They (effligh-hangers) probably thought it was funny, but it is not an original type of humor."
said she was not disturbed by the effigy hanging.
Other team members were Cheryl Payer, El Dorado sophomore, Alan D. Latta, Wichita sophomore, and Fred Morrison. Colby senior.
The four team members carried home a $1500 scholarship from their first victory in New York over the University of Chicago. They lost to Smith College of Northampton, Mass., Sunday, but still carted away another $500 for a KU scholarship.
All this- $2000—for answering questions on a TV quiz program.
you that the state has more money coming in from the tax increase which you voted than is needed to operate a sound program for our state government." Docking said.
No Mental Services Raise
But they lost, so they were hanged in effay.
His budget did not contain raises for psychiatrists and doctors at the state mental hospitals beyond those they would ordinarily get on the Civil Service Pay Scale.
The governor's proposed budget was 2.6 per cent higher than the estimated $330 million estimated spending for the present fiscal year. It included spending from state and federal money, along with distributions to local governments including public schools.
Docking told the legislature that it will decide the spending pattern of Kansas for the next decade during the present budget session.
"The decision that we are making," he said, "is whether to embark on new and grandiose spending plans for state and local governments of Kansas, of which there have been many suggested, or whether we shall reduce the taxes on our citizens while at the same time maintaining a sound and economical program at the state and local levels."
Sales Tax Raise
The sales tax would be raised back to its pre-1958 level of 2 per cent on July I, 1961, according to the governor's proposal.
The governor's budget contained money to allow agencies to grant pay raises in accordance with the two extra steps added to the Civil Service Pay Scale by the State Finance Council last fall.
Docking said public schools should get "full 100 per cent" of their aid formulas for fiscal 1960-61.
He said that suggestions that emergency aid to elementary and high schools be increased from $6 to $25 per pupil were inspired by "pressure groups."
The school tax problem cannot be solved by more and more dipping into the taxes you pay on the purchases you make." Docking said.
Rather, he said, the answer lies in "a more equitable adjustment of taxes at the local level."
of salary increases from 7 to 3 per cent; Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said:
"Anything less than the 7 per cent increase recommended by the regents would mean that the competitive position of KU and other state schools will decrease further, and serious erosion of the quality of opportunity for Kansas young people is inevitable."
Docking also suggested a reduction of $2,100,000 in operating expenditures for state colleges.
The regents had requested a total budget of $29,300,000 which was to come from the general revenue fund. The regents had asked for $165,000 in operating expenses to cover day-to-day maintenance of the physical plant at KU. The budget hearing committee, which reviewed the regents' budget in November before making recommendations to the Governor, recommended $60,000, a figure $105,000 below the Regents' request.
Administrators at KU were unable to determine how much the governor cut from KU's operating expenses.
Building Funds Cut
Cov. Docking also asked for two changes in the regents' building proposals for state schools. The changes were requested to allow all new construction to stay within the financial framework of the Educational Building Fund (EBF), which is financed by a state-wide $^{34}$ mill levy.
Two proposed buildings will be affected if the governor's changes are passed by the legislature: the new engineering building at KU and a new physical science building at Kansas State University.
The governor requested that the appropriation for the KU engineering building be reduced from $450,000 to $275,000. A source in the office of the state budget director said this reduction will not delay the building of the proposed engineering plant.
"What has happened is that the governor shifted from the general fund back into the EBF appropriations for a building at each the school for the deaf and school for the blind.
"By placing financing for these buildings back in the EBF it was necessary to make reductions in the building fund for the engineering school at KU and the physical science building at Kansas State.
"This action will not delay the construction of these buildings since work can not start until the total amount ($1,900,000 for the engineering building) has been appropriated. But the action will allow construc tion to begin on the new school for the blind this next year," the source said.
Three Buildings Slated for KU
In the regents' building program,
to be completed the fall term of 1961,
a total of $4,300,000 was requested
for KU: $600,000 for addition to the
power plant, $1,950,000 for a new
engineering building, and $1,800,000
for an addition to Watson Library.
Where Is Winter?
Wool blankets and fur-lined coats were tossed aside last night as students switered in a record high temperature of 64.
A warm front moved northward across the state causing the unseasonably high readings.
For tonight the weatherman predicts occasional rain or drizzle.
Low's are expected to be in the high 40's
Tomorrow will bring more drizzle and hirsits in the 50s.
Rainfall from thunderstorms last night was moderate over the southeast part of the state. Iola received .65 of an inch, Fredonia .54 and Chanute .44.