Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year. No. 61
Thursday, Dec. 15, 1960
KU Seeks $2,775,000 From Proposed 1961 Building Fund
By United Press International
The University of Kansas today asked for a $2,775,000 share of the $8,147,985 building fund that the Board of Regents is asking from the 1961 State Legislature. Kansas State University asked for a $2,991,000.
KU also made an advance request for an additional $1,500,000 to be appropriated in 1962. The funding program was laid before the State Budget Committee as it opened two days of hearings in Topeka.
ALSO INCLUDED in the program was a request by the board for the withdrawal of $10 million from the state inactive fund. This would be used in a dormitory building program aimed at meeting the challenge of skyrocketing enrollments in state-supported schools.
The total building program proposed by these schools asks for
U.S. Embassy Hit in Laos
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — Artillery and incendiary shells and bullets struck the U.S. embassy today as pro-Western soldiers battled to drive Communist - supported troops from the capital city.
(Diplomatic officials in Washington said the American chancery, the building housing the embassy offices, was burned out in a fire started when an incendiary shell hit the building. There was no report of Americans hurt.)
U. S. Ambassador Winthrow Brown and 30 staff members huddled on the ground floor of the building as the fighting between pro- and Anti-Communist forces swirled through the city. Two heavy shells hit the building and shells sprayed the second floor.
$5,034,985 from the state general fund and $3,113,000 from the Educational Building Fund (EBF), a tax-supported source which had previously provided most of the money for building at state schools.
All the money asked by KU for 1961 would come from the General Fund and the EBF. The requests include $1 million from the General Fund and $375,000 from the EBF for an engineering building. The total cost is estimated at $1.9 million, of which $25,000 already has been appropriated.
AN ADDITION to Dyche Hall would require $350,000 from the General Fund. The Watson Library addition has had no money appropriated toward its construction. $800,000 was requested from the EBF for this purpose and $1 million to be appropriated during 1962 was also asked.
Regents asked $750,000 for Blake Hall, broken down into $150,000 from the general fund, $100,000 from the EBF and $500,000 to be appropriated in 1962.
However, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said more floor space could be provided by construction of a new building adjacent to the old one, at less cost per square foot. The new addition would cost $1,500,000.
UDK to Take Holiday Until Next Year
Today's issue of the Daily Kansan will be the final one of 1960. Publication will be resumed Jan. 3. The editors, reporters and faculty advisers wish the Kansan readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
WESCOE SAID architects had recommended that the old building not be renovated. Governor-Elect Anderson suggested further study be made of the proposals.
Other state schools made requests as follows:
Pittsburgh State—$500,000; Emporia State—$598,000; and Hays State, $1,132,500. Other requests by the state schools for the blind and deaf totaled $151,485.
Famous Singers To Tour Tonight
ATTENTION: Fraternities, sororities and dormitories.
One of the finest choral groups of its kind will make a serenading circuit of the University living districts tonight.
LIFE magazine has called them "stupefying."
Look has said: "Except for their singing, they're a fine group."
Downbeat magazine called them "a far-out bunch."
The name of the serenaders has been forgotten, as have the names of the individuals. However, it is remembered that it is an exceptional group whose members have achieved fame in other fields at KU.
AS THEIR spokeswoman put it:
"We have all been serenaded by so many wonderful groups that we thought we might try and reciprocate."
The serenaders have chartered a bus and will begin making the rounds at 7:30 p.m.
For this unexpected treat, students are urged to remain at their respective houses until the choral-eiers have choralled.
Budget Hearings Start
KU Retirement Plan May Pass
By Frank Morgan
(Editor's Note: Tails is the third and last of a series of articles about the present status of the teacher retirement program at the University of Kansas and the proposed improvement of the program.)
The Chancellor of the University carried a document-filled briefcase to the state capital early today.
When he opened it at the state budget hearing committee meeting at 9:30 a.m. he pulled out a $2\frac{1}{2}$-inch thick bound copy of KU's budget for the 1961 academic year and laid it on the table.
THE COMMITTEE examined the budget requests, section by section, until they came to a part the Chancellor considers the most important responsibility of the University at present — an adequate retirement plan for the University faculty.
"It is incredible that a group of people that can contribute to the security of this nation has no security provided for them as they reach retirement age," the Chancellor said.
Because the state has never sufficiently provided for the financial needs of those people who retire after devoting their lives and careers to education.
Why is retirement given top priority in this year's requests?
"It is also incredible that this provision of security has been avoided or relegated to a low priority by this state in the past."
But a change is coming. Political observers have said this year will see the passage of a new retirement program by the state legislature. Gov-Elect John Anderson has indicated that he is in favor of such a program. And the University administration is optimistic about the plan that is being presented today.
The plan is formally known as the "Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund."
The Association is a legal reserve life insurance company incorporated in New York state in 1918. The fund is a companion
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Board of Regents today proposed an annuity retirement program for staff and faculty members of institutions under their jurisdiction which would cost the state $884,000 annually.
Regents Ask 5-10%
Retirement Plan
REGENTS Chairman H. Hall Clement said the proposal called for equal contributions on the part of the state and the insured ranging between 5 and 10 per cent of the individual's salary.
Regents asked permission to enter into an agreement with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assn., a non-profit organization, to provide a contributory retirement program.
Gov.-Elect John Anderson Jr., however, said this would be hard to reconcile with a state-wide retirement program if the state plan called for contributions to be limited to 5 per cent.
The plan calls for payment under TIAA sponsorship of 5 per cent of each individual teacher's annual salary by the individual and a matching 5 per cent contributed by the University. This would cost KU approximately $280,000 annually.
company that invests the premiums of the program in current stocks at current market prices and is considered a device to protect participants somewhat against inflation influence.
In 1958, TIAA covered 49.6 per cent of the nation's four-year colleges and universities. Among privately-supported colleges and universities, 80 per cent were covered by TIAA.
A 5 per cent increase in salaries is also being requested by the University in its budget this year. This increase would cover the deduction in the individual's annual wage so that the adoption of the retirement plan would not mean a virtual reduction in salary.
So if the plan were adopted, a KU faculty member who retires at the age of 70 would receive a life annuity equivalent in purchasing power to approximately one half of the average salary received during his last ten years of service.
At present, the maximum payment under the state's pension program is $1,480 after 25 years service.
The TIAA payments would be in addition to the federal social security payments.
Since 1954, publicly-supported
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BARBARA HINKLE Miss Santa of 1960
Plenty of Holiday Cheer For Miss Santa of 1960
In the midst of Christmas carols, laughter, and wishes for a merry Christmas and happy New Year, one of the campus' most carefully guarded mysteries was revealed this afternoon at the annual Kansan Christmas party.
Barbara Hinkle, Paola freshman, was announced the winner of the Miss Santa contest.
MISS SANTA, dressed in her pert red velvet Santa costume, was guest of honor at the Kansas party and met journalism faculty and students.
She smiled with delight over
Weather
The weather bureau today called off an earlier forecast of snow flurries for Kansas, but said arctic air would drop temperatures into the teens by tonight. High temperatures today were forecast near 40 before arrival of the colder air.
the $150 in gifts she received from Lawrence merchants. Some of her gifts were $20 in gift certificates, a Lady Manhattan shirt, a Bobbie Brooks sweater, a toyoodle, and a dozen red roses presented by the Daily Kansan.
Miss Hinkle will be pictured on a full page of the winter issue of the Jayhawker.
A TAPE recording of the party made by KUOK, campus radio station, will be broadcast at 6:20 p.m. today over KUOK and by Lawrence station KI.WN tomorrow.
Other finalists in the Miss Santa contest were Shirley Lorton, Kansas City; Joan McGregor and Dianne Turner, Kansas City, Mo.; and Karen Lou Vice, St. John. All are freshmen.