McCoy Says Retirement Plan Will Pass
By Frank Morgan
- University faculties will have an adequate retirement program.
- The proposed 5 per cent increase in faculty salaries will be passed by the legislature.
- The Board of Regents crash building program will be adopted.
- A more favorable attitude toward education will emanate from the state house than has in the past four years.
- The lame-duck appointments by Gov. George Docking to the Board of Regents will never take office.
These were predictions of Kansas political expert, Alvin S. McCoy, Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Kansas City Star. He spoke at the Faculty Forum at noon yesterday in the Kansas Union.
Speaking on the transition of governments due to occur at Topeka in January, the tall grey-haired correspondent said things are certain to
change regarding education and government spending.
"GOVERNOR-ELECT John Anderson committed himself, during the campaign, to a retirement program for state employees, an accelerated building program for state colleges and universities, a change in the probation and parole laws, and a modernization of the prison system," Mr. McCoy said.
He said he expects the Republican governor and legislature to work in closer harmony than Gov. Docking and his legislature. The Kansas political writer said there have already been many occasions which show things will run much smoother.
"The $5-million building program recommended by the KU Board of Regents will go through," he said.
"This would be in addition to the regular $3 million for buildings that comes from the state property tax levy."
THE LEGISLATORS feel that the vote against Docking was a mandate from the people that showed they were not satisfied with the present governor's attitude toward education, he said.
"It will be the old leaders intention to do what should have been done two to four years ago, and they may go as high as the $5 million that was recommended."
Mr. McCoy said the faculty retirement plan, supported by the Board of Regents and the University, will go through. This is the Teacher's Insurance Annuity Assn. plan whereby 5 per cent is deducted from the individual salary. The state matches the amount and the faculty member retires at half his regular salary.
"THE 5 PER CENT PAY increase, asked by the board, has a good chance of passage," he said. "This
means the take-home pay remains the same despite the retirement deduction."
Concerning the recent appointment of William F. Danenbarger of Concordia to the Board of Regents by Gov. Docking, Mr. McCoy said the appointee, and the other one to be named before Dec. 31, would have "rather tenuous lives" as board members.
"I assume there is a possibility that they will not be confirmed," he wryly remarked.
The appointments must be confirmed by the Senate when it convenes on Jan 10. Danenbarger, a Democrat, will have to be approved by a Republican senate.
MR. McCOY compared the personalities of the governor and governor-elect as an indication of what might be expected in the next two years. Anderson is the antithesis of Gov
"Anderson is the antithesis of Gov
Docking. The governor is a strange person in that he is utterly inconsistent, yet, an interesting psychological study.
"Docking called himself a tight-fisted liberal and really believed he was. This is as inconsistent as being a spendshift miser . . . he had explosive tendencies that often came out in scathed denouncements and dramatic outbursts."
ANDERSON is a calm, poised and relaxed individual, Mr. McCoy said. The governor-elect is now sitting in on the budget hearings at which the various state departments are defending their financial programs and requests, he said.
"The striking thing is Anderson seems to enjoy these hearings. Docking attended the first budget hearing of his administration, but sent a representative the following three years."
Chinese Back Russian 'Peaceful Coexistence'
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Chinese President Liu Shao-Chi assured a cheering Chinese-Soviet rally today that Communist China supports a "peaceful foreign policy" and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev's plan of "peaceful coexistence" with the West.
"No force can undermine the solidarity" that binds the two biggest Communist countries together, Liu told the "friendship rally' at the indoor arena of Lenin Stadium, which was more than half-filled with 7,000 Chinese students, diplomats and visitors.
Queen Finalists To Be Selected
Five finalists for the 1960 Miss Santa title will be chosen tonight from among 44 candidates. The Kansan Board, made up of the newspaper executives, will pick the finalists from pictures of the women in the Miss Santa costume.
Miss Santa will then be selected early next week by three judges: Jack Mitchell, head football coach; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and John Weatherwax, mayor of Lawrence.
She will be the guest of honor at the Daily Kansan Christmas party on Dec. 15 and will receive $150 in gifts from Lawrence merchants.
The 44 candidates are:
Paula Jenkins, Junction City junior, Alpha Phi; Hanna Hoffman, Mission freshman, Corbin; Sandra Hays, Norton freshman, Miller; Dixie Dunnaway, Topeka sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta, and Suzanne Bird, Topeka junior, Delta Gamma.
BOBBY GREENLEE, Belleville junior, Lewis; Coleen Boggs, Denver, Colo., freshman, Corbin; Joan McGregor, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, GSP; Karen Vice, St. John freshman, GSP, and Barbara Evertson, Melvyn freshman, GSP
Judy = Wilcox, Kirkwood, Mo,
sophomore, Alpha Micron Pi;
Kathy Jones, Plainville junior, Chi
Omega; Diane Reamon, Topeka
juniior, Lewis; Jeannene Meyer,
Chanute juniior, Management
House; Jaunita Almquist, Overland
Park freshman, Sellards, and Marilyn Zarter, Leavenworth junior,
Alpha Delta Pi.
MELANIE POOR, Seneca, Mo. sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega; Nancy Borel, Leavenworth sophomore, Lewis; Wendy Wilkerson, Raytown Mo., freshman, Corbin; Anita Bradley, Kansas City freshman, GSP, Sandra Jahn, Leavenworth freshman, Corbin; Susan Neil, Abilene sophomore, Pi Beta Phi, and Mary Erickson, Topeka freshman, Delta Delta Delta.
Sherron Brown, Bethel sophomore, Douthart; Cora Hart, Denver, Colo., senior, Lewis; Sandra Plaskett, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, Sigma Kappa; Barbara Hinkle, Paola freshman, GSP; Mary Ann Freeman, Wichita freshman, Corbin;
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Such "friendship rallies" are normally held for heads of state visiting the Soviet Union. But this rally more than any other lived up to its name. At the end of Liu's hour-long speech — delivered in Chinese and translated into Russian — he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who also spoke, kissed each other on the cheek and hugged and smiled.
Liu and Brezhnev also embraced and kissed following Brezhev's 23-minute speech in which he quoted an earlier Khrushchev phrase—"any imperialist attack against People's China will be considered an attack against our country"—and promised that the "stinking corpse" of Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-Shek would soon be removed from the United Nations.
FOLLOWING THE televised and radio broadcast rally, Moscow Radio presented the premiere of a cantata by a prominent Soviet composer entitled "The Soviet-Chinese Friendship."
Khrushchev, who has been confined to his home with a cold described by his wife as "a touch of influenza," did not take part in the rally.
Anderson Favors Education for All
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Gov.elect John Anderson Jr. said today abolishing the constitutional provision that any high school graduate must be admitted to a state-supported school would not be a just solution to the problem of overcrowding.
Anderson spoke at a meeting of the Kansas council of church-related colleges, which represents 22 institutions in the state.
In answer to a question, Anderson said public instruction is guaranteed through the college level by the constitution.
Acknowledging that some students are not fitted for college training, he went on to say, "I think a student has the right in the first place to have a determination of whether he fits."
"For my part I think this is good," he said.
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Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1960
Suppression of Indonesian Press Leads to Autocracy
A Southeast Asian expert said last night that suppression of the Indonesian press has put that problem-mridden country one step closer to autocratic domination.
Willard Hanna, American Universi-
ties Field Staff representative,
spoke to a joint meeting of Theta
Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi professional journalism fraternities on the press in Southeast Asia.
He said the leading opposition press in Indonesia has been closed down by President Sukarno. Other newspapers are rationed their newsprint by the government as a check against unfavorable news policies.
"THIS IS PART of his 'guided-
WILLIAM A. HANNA, an AUFS representative, last night told students Southeast Asia is the coming land of progress and prosperity.
Bleak Future Seen for Logic
J. M. Bochenski, Rose Morgan Professor of philosophy has little hope of seeing any great strides in the field of logic during this generation or in the near future.
"It seems as though the great creative period is almost over," Prof. Bochenski told his Humanities Forum audience in the Kansas Union last night.
He said that logic develops during very short periods.
"NORMAL SPAN of creativity seems to be 100 years or so and our modern creative period began about 1807. If the law is to hold we should be past our peak," Prof. Bochenski said.
He explained that logic develops in cycles. There are creative periods and then there are times when there is nothing.
"After one creative period a complete decay follows. This is sometimes called the "dark ages" where there is no science, logic, philosophy, no nothing," Prof. Bochenski said.
During the decay period logic becomes so forgotten that it has to be rediscovered again. Even the fundamental principles must be relearned.
HE ATTRIBUTED the original development to the Greek and Hindu civilizations.
The Chinese also had a culture but never developed logic much further than through its very elementary stages, he said.
"These two civilizations developed logic which continued in various ways. Why others didn't develop logic, I don't know. I suspect language had something to do with it," Prof. Bochenski said.
democracy' plan with which he has completely taken control of the government and economy," Mr. Hauna said.
He said that until the newspapers were silenced two months ago, they were "highly enjoyable reading, revealing and witty with a great degree of freedom of editorial comment."
In a question and answer session following Mr. Hanna's talk, he was asked what he thought specifically about Sukarno's neutralism.
"He is an avowed neutral," he said, "with leanings either way."
"He says he is not a Communist but quite frankly admits being a Marxist. Despite his neutral stand, Sukarno has moved closer and closer to the Communist bloc in trade and relations."
TO THE QUESTION OF U.S. prestige abroad, Mr. Hanna said that current American domestic developments affect foreign thought more than our representatives abroad intimate.
"The big issue is race relations," he said. "Whenever the U.S. has a racial conflict, it crowds all other news aside throughout the world.
"If we can't solve our own problems now, can we tell foreign nations how to resolve theirs?"
Mr. Hanna was asked for his opinion on the "Ugly American," the novel that harshly criticized the U.S. diplomatic corps.
"The book has validity," he said, "but it is a bad novel. It talks about the problems and gives some solutions, but these are no better than the solutions already being used."
Mr. Hanna formerly served as a foreign service officer for ten years in Southeast Asia before becoming associated with the AUFS.
Kennedy Names Udall to Post
NEW YORK — (UPI) — President-elect John F. Kennedy today named Rep. Stewart L. Udall, of Arizona, as Secretary of Interior and said he expects to name the important post of Secretary of State shortly.
Kennedy said he had not decided yet whether his brother, Robert, who has been reported in line for Attorney General, would join the Kennedy administration.
The President-elect said the job of Secretary of State, like that of the Secretaries of Treasury and Defense, was an important one and he wanted to "render the best judgment possible."