Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No. 80
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1959
ASC Appoints 42 Secretaries; Tells of Seminar
The All Student Council last night named 42 freshman women as ASC secretaries and announced the National Student Assn. will hold a conference here March 13-15.
Sharon Dey, Ulysses junior and ASC secretary, said the women will work in the ASC office in the Kansas Union an hour weekly, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or on Saturday morning.
They will assist with filing, sending correspondence to ASC committee members and typing.
"The program is also designed to interest the women in seeking ASC positions in the future," Miss Dey said.
The students will do the work on a voluntary basis without pay. A bill to employ a full-time secretary was defeated earlier because of the expense.
Patric Little, Wichita senior and ASC chairman, reported that the Missouri-Kansas district of the NSA will hold a regional International Student Relations Seminar in the Kansas Union.
Discussion leaders at the seminar will include the NSA Campus International Administrator, the Student Government vice president and an Algerian student studying at the University of Missouri under the NSA's Foreign Student Leadership Project.
Maintenance Workers Plead For Decent Living Wage
Li'l Abner Play Here Next Month
Ed Dittemore, McLouth senior,
was elected ASC treasurer last night
to fill the vacancy left by Chester
Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla., who
graduated in January. Vanatta was
the School of Business representative.
Dittemore, finance committee chairman, announced that the ASC Student Leadership Conference will be held Feb. 20 and 21 in Bailey Hall. The conference is open to officers of campus organizations and organized houses. It will offer instruction in good leadership characteristics and group dynamics.
Ticket prices are main floor, $3.59,
$2.82, $2.56; first balcony, $2.82, $2.56,
$2.05; and second balcony, $1.28.
ID. cards will not admit students.
Tickets can now be obtained only by mail order. Across the counter ticket sales start Feb. 16. They will be available at the KU Fine Arts Office. Union Ticket Center, and Bell Music Co.
Leading cast members in the play are, Patricia Northrop, Daisy Mae; Don Pottier, Pappy Yokum; Charlotte Nolan, Mammy Yokum; Robert Kaye, Li'l Abner; Dean Dittman, Marryin' Sam; Peter Costanza, Earthquake McGoon; Sammy Smith, Senator Phogbound; Henry Norell, Gen. Bullmoose; Norma Kessler, Appassionata Von Climax, and Ginny Gan, Stupefy Jones.
An original musical comedy, Li'l Abner, will be presented at Hoch Auditorium on March 4 at 8:20 p.m. The play is based on the characters created by Al Capp in his comic strip.
The Broadway Theatre Alliance Inc., is directing the touring company.
The play features the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, the music of Gene de Paul, dances by Michael Kidd, and was directed by Lawrence Kasha.
'PRINT THE FACTS'—Eleven University maintenance employees gather around the University
Daily Kansan copy desk to present their side of the current maintenance wage problem.
Department Seeks Stolen Designs
The department of architecture circulated a notice today of the disappearance of two presentations of architectural design problems titled, "An Airline Ticket Office," which disappeared between noon January 22, and 8 a.m. Friday from the third floor of Marvin Hall where they were on display.
The presentations were the work of two Design VII students, John Greer, senior, and Douglas Smith, special student, both of Lawrence. Both students are planning to make application for scholarship for advanced study in architecture and intended to have the drawings photographed as a part of their presentation.
The department asked that the drawings be left in the corridor on the third floor of Marvin—or they may be mailed without a return address to the department.
Weather
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Snow flurries northwest this afternoon and over west port tonight and tomorrow. Colder west and north central tonight and over state tomorrow. Low tonight 10 to 20. High tomorrow in the 20's.
Representative Wages
Classification Union Scale Before Cut Cut to
Electricians $3.60 $2.21 $1.79
Truck Drivers 2.51 1.43 1.05
Fitters and Welders 3.65 2.21 1.79
Laborers 2.10 1.38 1.21
Painters 2.85 1.81 1.79
Carpenters 2.95 1.80 1.79
Janitors 2.10 1.02 .96
Bailey Films Start Today
"The Golden Age of Flemish Painting," a 53-minute color film, to be shown at 4 p.m. today in 4 Bailey Hall, opens the second semester Bailey Film Features series.
The film was produced by Paul Haaseaerts, a Belgian art critic, and is narrated by Pamela Brown, an English actress. The background music is made up of selections from the works of Flemish composers of the period. The film covers Flemish art from the 15th to 17th centuries.
"Life of the Molds," "Work of the Blood," and "Human Heredity." March 4; "Art of Metal Sculpture" and "Exploring Art Systems." March 11; "Ancient World—Egypt," March 18.
"The Hoaxsters" and "World War II—Prologue U.S.A." April 1; "The Great Adventure," April 8; "Chinese Jade Carving," "Oriental Brushwork" and "Chinese Painting Through the Ages," April 15; "Earthquake Research" and "River of Ice," April 22; "Miracle Builders," "Two Baroque Churches in Germany" and "Architecture U.S.A." April 29.
Other films in the series will be "City of Gold" and "The Great Diamond Fraud." Feb. 11; "The Maya Through the Ages." Feb. 18; "Paper Work" and "Your Career in the Paper Industry," Feb. 25.
"Animal Farm," May 6; "Chaucer's England," and "Yesterday's Actors." May 13; "The Golden Twenties," May 20.
By James Cable and Larry Miles
The "forgotten men" of the University today pleaded for a living wage.
They were calm. Occasionally they laughed about their plight. But underneath, they were worried men.
"We want to reveal the true facts of the situation to the public," KU maintenance declared today in a group interview with the Daily Kansas.
The men received wage reductions January 1 in accordance with a ruling handed down by Attorney General John Anderson. Anderson said the method of paying KU maintenance employees under the Lawrence "prevailing rate" system is illegal.
Gov. George Docking has threatened to veto a Senate bill to restore old wage rates to the employees.
"I can't continue to make it on these wages. I'm paying for a home, and I have a family to support," said V. R. Votaw, electrician. "I built up obligations I had planned to meet on the wages I was getting before the cut. I can't do it now."
Agreement Seen On Wage Scales
The Senate yesterday passed a measure to restore prevailing wage
The Daily Kansan learned today on good authority that a compromise is being worked out to place small college and large university maintenance workers within state civil service regulations. At the same time, the civil service pay scale would be increased.
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For some of the men it will be the end of the road. Too old to get other employment, too much in need of a living wage to continue to work at the University, they will quit, draw available pensions, and scrape for odd jobs.
If the men quit, some of them will be leaving jobs they have held for a long time—some of those at the interview had worked here 10 years others less.
For those who stay at the University and work under the Civil Service scale, the prospect is not much brighter.
"According to Civil Service regulations, I would get my first raise after I had been here five years. In another five years I would get another raise. Then I would have to wait 10 years for the next one," said Mr. Votaw.
"Remember, Civil Service scales were set way back in 1947. The cost of living has changed a lot since then," said James Busse, painter.
"Docking is trying to classify the two major universities with smaller state universities. The situation is not the same. Eighty per cent of our work is construction and not just maintenance. More work is involved here, and the cost of living in Lawrence is higher than in smaller cities," they said.
The men supported their claim to a living wage with facts and figures.
The January take home pay for one man in the group was $166.79.
He is trying to support a wife and child on the wage. He earned it by working 140 hours on maintenance, plus another four and one-half hours as a campus traffic director.
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