Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1961
58th Year, No.73
Anderson Slashes KU's Request by $1.5 Million
Gov. John Anderson made his budget recommendations to the state legislature today which included cutting KU's proposed budget for fiscal year 1962 by $1,584,803. The biggest part of the reduction came from the elimination of the KU medical center requests.
The Governor's recommendation for operations and research at KU cut the requested $17,832,701 down to $17,543,898, a difference of $288,803. His capital improvements recommendations pared KU's requested $3,514,900 down to $2,234,900, a difference of $1,280,000.
CHANCELLOR W. CLARK WESCOe said this morning that there would be no way of knowing where the cuts had been made in KU's budget until he had seen the recommendations. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, was present at the Governor's address and will return to KU later this afternoon.
The governor's method of financing capital improvements to meet an unexpected rise in enrollments was through a diversion of funds for building of mental hospitals and charitable institutions, a choice which already has aroused the opposition of several state legislators.
THE GOVERNOR also provided
for construction funds to meet burgeoning enrollments at state institutions of higher learning. He did it by recommending that the entire 1.75 mills for state charitable and mental hospital funds and the Kansas educational building fund be appropriated during fiscal years 1962-63 for building purposes at the seven state-supported schools.
"I recommend that for the calendar year 1961 that no taxes be levied for the Kansas charitable institutions and mental hospital building fund," Anderson said, "and that the levy for the Kansas educational building fund for this one year be increased from one to 1.75 mills with the additional amount to be appropriated for fiscal years 1962 and 1963 for building purposes at the seven state schools."
He said this would provide additional appropriations of $3.4 million for educational buildings. Another $1.7 million would be needed for the total building program, which he said he planned to provide for in his message to the 1962 budget session.
GOV. ANDERSON proposed general fund operating expenditures of $30.8 million for the board of regeents and the institutions it administers, an increase of $2 million over fiscal 1961.
"This amount will provide the 5 per cent increase in unclassified salaries recommended by the board and the increases in the salaries of classified employees in accordance with the present civil service ranges," he said.
The chief executive said his budget provides 116 new teaching and maintenance positions at the institutions at a cost of $675,000. He also included $446,000 in addition to the building projects in the board of re-gents report on general building.
AN APPROPRIATION of $15,000 was recommended by the Board of Regents for research studies into curriculum needs, duplication of studies, further development of long-range building plans, possible adoption of tri-semester or quarter system and operation of physical plants.
Anderson said he deferred the University of Kansas Medical Center program because, "I believe there should be further study of the factors related to expansion of the physical plant, such as the plans for increasing the number of doctors, nurses and technicians to be trained at the medical center, the cost of operating the expanded facilities, and the amount of non-teaching medical service that should be provided at the center."
Shaffer Foresees More Sit-ins
By Fred Zimmerman
"I believe there will be more sit-ins here." Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics and president of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy (LLPD), said in an interview yesterday.
Prof. Shaffer is a central figure in the civil rights controversy in Lawrence. He and the LLPD rallied community support this summer for an anti-discrimination protest to the city commission when that body was considering the case of the Jayhawk Plunge, a local swimming pool.
HE SAID HE favored all three of these measures, "so long as they are peaceful, non-violent, and within the law."
Prof. Shaffer also predicted that students would engage in selective buying and boycotts of establishments refusing to serve Negroes.
Asked if he, personally, would participate in a sit-in. Prof. Shaffer replied that he did not go to taverns. He was then asked if he would engage in a sit-in at a restaurant, should one occur. Prof. Shaffer answered he did not think that as president of the LLPD he should take part in an action the league did not sponsor.
"A university professor is a free citizen of the country, and therefore can engage in any peaceful action within the law. I don't feel that I represent the university. I have taken to Chancellors Murphy and Wescoe about this. My position does not conflict."
He stated that if the league should choose to sponsor such an action, or if he were not its president, he would join any "peaceful, non-violent demonstration."
IN ANSWER TO another question, he said he did not feel that his status at the University disqualified him from participation in a civil rights demonstration.
Prof. Shaffer added that "both Dr. Murphy and Dr. Wescoe believe strongly in civil rights. Before Dr. Murphy left he told me his only regret was that he could not stay to see the pool (Jayhawk Plunge) integrated. I asked Dr. Murphy if I could quote him on that, and he said, 'Anything I say you can quote.'"
The pool was picketed this summer, and it eventually closed, but was reopened as a private club.
One morning during the hassle 10 dead carp were found on Prof. Shaffer's doorstep. Another morning there was a crude paper-sack effigy, with a stick through its heart, and an attached note saying, "You will never swim again."
PROF. SHAFFER SAID he understands the pool may be re-reopened as a private club again. He indicated that the LLPD may investigate the legality of a "club's" discrimination against Negroes.
"That will be decided after the league elections in March," he said.
Harry Shaffer
Shaffer said that during the pool controversy Ed Abels, editor of
the Lawrence Outlook, threatened to picket the chancellor's office to have Shaffer fired. "I told him to go ahead, that was his right."
Commenting on the sit-in last Thursday, Shaffer said that although he had nothing to do with its planning or execution, as soon as he heard about it he called Marvin McKnight, Lawrence senior and chairman of the CRC, and both hurried to the police station, "to see if those boys needed any help."
HE ADDED THAT he notified Charles Oldfather, professor of law and a member of the LLPD, and asked him to come to the station, "in case the students needed any legal assistance." He said Prof. Oldfather often advises the LLPD on the legal aspects of various civil rights actions.
Although declining to term himself an "adviser" to students who are pushing anti-discrimination measures, Shaffer said that he has "talked to them, and encouraged them to take actions that are peaceful and non-violent."
Shaffer stated that any sit-in should be preceded by an attempt to reason with the proprietor of the establishment. Concerning the sit-in at Louise's Bar, Prof. Shaffer said Steve Baratz, Lawrence graduate student and member of the CRC, told him that prior to
Mid-Year Graduates May Get $2 Refund
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A refund of $2 will be available to mid-year graduates who have paid the full $10 senior dues said Frank Naylor, Kansas City senior and senior class president.
Naylor said that application for the refund can be made at the Alumni Office by surrendering the senior ID card with the holders mailing address on the back side. The mid-year graduate can make application any time between now and the time he leaves Lawrence. Refund checks will be mailed to the graduate.
Alf Landon . . . Speaks at Dedication
Alf Landon Compares Old Kansas to Congo
Alfred M. Landon, former Kansas Governor, spoke about the comparison between the Kansas pre-Civil War days and the present world situation last night at the Lewis Hall Dedication Banquet.
"Kansas was as much in periphery then as the Congo is today," Mr. Landon said. "The fighting in Kansas was supported by outsiders as is the fighting in the Congo now.
"THE CONGRESS, PRESS and public did not think of discussion or hope of agreement between the North and the South. People do not think there can be an agreement between the communistic and capitalist worlds today. This is a larger scale comparison in our life. The same fears exist today."
"I'm not sure but what history will begin and end with John F. Kennedy—as it did with Abraham Lincoln. The next four years will be peace of a kind, but we won't enjoy it.
"IT IS A GREAT ERA of service. We can get along if we adjust to circumstances.
Mr. Landon reminisced about his first meeting with Luther N. "Luke" Lewis during his speech.
"One hundred years ago, the Catholics and Protestants were at mortal war with each other. They learned to get along. I'm not pessimistic. In time, communism and capitalism can live together without mortal danger to each other."
Luther N. Lewis represented the alumni association which supported Landon's fraternity house, Phi Gamma Delta. Mr. Landon said that Mr. Lewis believed "money should be spent before it was let loose."
"NOW THE LEWIS' HAVE established communication with generations of Kansans," Mr. Landon said. "Nothing is more fitting to the memory of these wonderful people.
"To listen and know the background of the Lewis family, the state for which they have contributed so much, brings back memories of a good life, as I say, a peaceful, happy life of earlier days."
Ike Advocates Amendment Changing Inauguration Date
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Eisenhower recommended today a major revamping of the Presidential election timetable so that a new chief executive would take command at least 80 days before a new Congress convenes.
Eisenhower, at his farewell press conference, did not dwell on details of his suggested constitutional amendment. But it is known that he favors shorter election campaigns and an earlier inauguration of an incoming President
If Congress continued its custom of convening the first week in January, Eisenhower's plan would mean that a new president would take over the White House sometime in October. This, in turn, would necessitate a new legal election date which is now the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Eisenhower indicated that his proposed 80-day period between inauguration and the convening of Congress would allow the new President to set his policies and
prepare messages such as the state of the union and the budget for his first Congress.
Two of the latest constitutional amendments adopted dealt with the Presidency. One—the 20th adopted Oct. 15, 1933—changed the inaugural date from March 4 to Jan. 20 and set the date for Congress to reconvene Jan. 3.
The other—the 22nd, ratified in 1951—limits a President to two terms in the White House.
Weather
A brief break in the June-in January weather situation was forecast for Kansas today.
The weather bureau said cooler air and a weak low pressure area had moved into Northwestern Kansas this morning and would move eastward across the state, bringing the possibility of some light snow in the northeast tonight.
High temperatures today were forecast from 45 to 50, followed by overnight lows in the 20s.