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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 10, 1968
Student payroll late; should be out Monday
About 300 student employees who have not been paid can expect their pay checks Monday, Bill Hancock, University comptroller, said yesterday.
The student employee payroll has been delayed since Oct. 1, the date checks are usually given out. Although 2,509 students have now been paid, most received their checks after Oct. 1.
Hancock said there shouldn't be any excuses for a payroll being late, but questioned whether the department was actually late.
Charles M. Burrows, assistant comptroller, pointed out that state law only requires that people be paid as soon after the close of the month as practical.
Burrows further explained that the delay concerns students paid on a monthly basis, mostly graduate students employed as teachers. Hancock cited errors by some University departments as one reason for the delay.
"Many of them were late in sending in the teacher appointments," he said.
Hancock said appointments were supposed to be in by Sept. 5, but some were still trickling in. What embarrassed Hancock were the cases where people got their appointments in on time, but still hadn't gotten paid.
Adding to the delay was a new loyalty oath required by the Kansas Legislature, Burrows said, explaining that some appointments had to be returned because the oaths weren't signed.
Another setback in the Payroll Office occurred when the services of two key staff members were lost due to illnesses, Hancock said.
Hancock also pointed to the staff and space limitations.
Burrows explained, "We're staffed for the valleys, not the peaks. When the peaks come we just have to work harder."
Chin wiggler
LONDON (UPI)—Some people wriggle their ears. Housewife Pat Stedman, 25, wriggles her chin. Whenever she's nervous or tense, her chin starts quivering.
The British Medical Assn. says the last time it dealt with such a case was in 1894 and added that it's hereditary. Pat's father also has a quivering chin. So does her five-year-old daughter, Kim.
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Closed trial for Russian protestors
MOSCOW (UPI)—Five Russians who staged a protest Aug. 25 in Red Square against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia went on trial Wednesday in a heavily guarded Moscow courtroom on charges of disturbing public order.
Outside the court, from which all but close relatives, Communist newsmen and invited guests were barred, supporters of the defendants scuffled with plain-clothes police and handed out a statement declaring "the conscience of our people is on trial."
The defendants included Dr. Pavel Litinvov, 28, grandson of Josef Stalin's ace diplomatic troubleshooter and foreign minister, the late Maxim Litinvov. The others were Mrs. Larissa Bogaroz-Daniel, wife of imprisoned poet Yuli Daniel; literary critic Konstantin Babitsky, 32; Vadim Delone, 21, and Vladimir Dremlira, 27.
Litvinov and his co-defendants were arrested on Aug. 25 in Red Square within moments of unfurling homemade banners reading "Hands off Czechoslovakia" and "Shame to the Invaders."
Original error
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -David Lee Gruber, 22, a sailor from the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga, made legal history Sunday.
An astonished ranger detained Gruber after he allegedly saw the sailor string an arrow-pierced buck to a tree.
Police said Gruber is the first Navy enlisted man ever to be arrested for shooting deer with a bow and arrow in Los Angeles' sprawling Griffith Park.
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