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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Jan. 8.1959
Humanities Lecture Tonight
Father Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, professor of history at Catholic University, Paris, will present the third Humanities lecture of the school year at 8 tonight in Fraser Theater.
Father de Bertier's topic will be "The Handicap of Tradition in French Politics."
In the picture above. Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities Committee, is shown greeting Father de Bertier after he arrived yesterday.
The visiting lecturer spent this morning viewing the campus, then began a busy schedule this afternoon. He will take part is a discussion of the new French Constitution at the Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Browsing Room.
Band to Give Concert Sunday
The annual winter concert of the University of Kansas Concert Band will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre.
A trumpet trio, Lita Bach, Billings, Mont, Robert J. Robert, Isa Lawrence, and Jon Irish, Leavenworth, freshmen, will be featured.
Kenneth Bloomquist, new trumpet instructor and assistant director of
the band, will be soloist with the band. Russell L. Wiley, professor of band, will conduct.
The band will present numbers by von Weber, Holst, Johann Strauss, Coates, Richard Wagner, Barber, Persiehetti, Liszt, and several marches.
The United States has the world's greatest system of public forests.
Guild Says State Can Hold Taxes
Kansas can hold the line on taxes this year if state agencies do not ask for new services or pay increases, Dr. Frank Guild told the Faculty Forum yesterday.
Dr. Guild, research director for the Kansas Legislative Council, spoke on Kansas tax problems.
There could be a money problem, the research director said, if Gov. Docking can get the half-cent sales tax increase repealed. The 1957 legislature increased the sales tax to two and one half per cent.
"The law is there, and it is doubtful if the governor can get enough legislators to vote to repeal the increase," Dr. Guild said.
The Kansas sales tax is one of the highest in the nation. In many of the states having higher sales tax levies food purchases are exempt. Or part of the tax is sent back to local governments.
If consumer food purchases were free of sales tax, Dr. Guild estimated, the loss in sales tax revenue would be 20 per cent.
The 1959 budget calls for expenditures of $328 million, the largest budget in state history and an increase of $70 million over 1957.
Dr. Guild pointed out that the budget included $93 million the federal government will spend in Kansas, most of it for interstate highways. The state will also collect about $92 million to be turned back to the county and city governments.
Dr. Conboy Honored With Two Offices
Dr. William A. Conboy, chairman of the department of speech and drama, was elected national vice chairman for general semantics and related methodologies at the annual meeting of the Speech Association of America.
Dr. Conboy also has been named to a five-man committee to study department organization in colleges and universities. This group will investigate departmental relationships among the areas of public speaking, theater, radio-television, and speech correction.
World production of potatoes centers in Europe and the USSR although this vegetable originated in the Andes.
"The World of Cilli Wang," a silent globe of pantomime, will be created at 8:20 tomorrow night in the University Theatre.
Cilli Wang to Create PantomimeWorldHere
Cilli Wang, a woman pantomimist who has performed in theaters throughout the United States, is the only living character in her world.
She is supported by 500 pounds of costuming, life size dummies, and a grand piano. With these effects, her world comes to life.
Some of her pantomimes are "His Master's Voice," "The Chambermaid," "Ballet at Midnight," and "Society Dancing."
Tickets for the performance are now on sale at the School of Fine Arts office, the Kansas Union ticket center and Bell Music Co.
The uses of paper are expanding rapidly, and between 1945 and 1955 United States production increased by 70 per cent.
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