Thursday, October 17, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KSTA backs salary hike
Kansas boards of education might resort to recruitment of first-year teachers from outside the state beginning with the 1969-70 school year, Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence school district No. 497, said today.
Knox's statement was in response to implementation by the Student Kansas State Teachers Association of a resolution calling for minimum starting salaries of $6,500 for first-year teachers in Kansas.
James Dunn, Lawrence senior and president of the KU Student Education Association, a KSTA affiliate, said the measure was adopted at the state convention last March.
Implementation plans, consisting mainly of informing this year's seniors about the resolution, were discussed at a Student KSTA workshop last Saturday in Toneka. Dunn said.
He explained that although the resolution asks first-year teachers not to sign contracts offering less than $6,500, starting salaries remain an individual decision.
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI)—The National Institutes of Health announced yesterday development of a vaccine that effectively prevents German measles, the primary cause of birth defects in the United States.
German measles vaccine may curb birth abnormality
As a result, NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Deseases said children in nine U.S. communities will soon take part in further field trials.
It was announced that the widest field trial yet of a vaccine against Rubella German measles has shown the vaccine to be 90 per cent effective. The field trial was held on the National Chinese island of Taiwan.
The effort is an attempt to avert a recurrence of the 1964-65 German measles epidemic which produced an estimated 30,000 abnormal pregnancies in the United States. The disease strikes approximately every seven to 10 years in epidemic proportions.
American scientists win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM (UPI)—Three American scientists won the $70,000 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for heredity studies independent of each other.
The medical faculty of Caroline Institute awarded the prize jointly to Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 41, of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md.; Robert William Holley, 46, on leave from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and now a resident fellow at the Salk Institute in San Diego, Calif.; and H. Gobind Khorana, 46, of the University of Wisconsin.
As alternatives to lower salaries, a teacher may seek employment in another state, return to graduate school, or turn to another field, Dunn said. He felt most first-year teachers would remain in education, however.
The Caroline Medical faculty said it awarded the prize to the three Americans for "their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."
Dr. Hugo Theorell of the Swedish selection committee put it more simply.
"Their discoveries mean that we suddenly understand the ABC's of heredity," he said.
Miss Loda Newcomb, assistant director of placement for the School of Education, said some students have already taken out-of-state jobs for salary reasons. A KSTA bulletin ranks Kansas pay schedules 32nd in the United States.
Calling the pay increase request "not unreasonable," Dunn said, "Low salaries may get to the point where people can't afford to go into teaching."
Topeka teachers are receiving starting salaries of $6,200. In Lawrence, starting pay is $5,500, an increase of $400 over last year.
Knox maintains that a $1,000 increase would not be permitted under present state law. The law, he said, provides for an increase of only four per cent of perpupil costs for the previous year.
"Pressure should be applied on the state legislature rather than
on local school boards," Knox said.
He said students should show more concern for experienced teachers and their futures and not place so much emphasis on beginning salaries.
"I am disappointed that students have made no comment on maintaining quality within the teaching profession," Knox said.
Poor chances for advancement, not starting pay, are the reasons fewer people are becoming teachers, he said.
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