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Ah, friends, dear friends, as years go on and heads get gray, how fast the guests do go!
Touch hands, touch hands, with those that stay.
Strong hands to weak, old hands to young, around the Christmas board, touch hands.
The false forget, the foe forgive, for every guest will go and every fire burn low and cabin empty stand.
Forget, forgive, for who may say that Christmas day may ever come to host or guest again.
Touch hands!
... From "John Norton's Vagabond" by William Henry Harrison Murray
KU Budget Slashed To This Year's Level
The State Budget Division yesterday slashed nearly every increase from the proposed operating budget for the University for 1959-60.
Unless the cuts are restored, it appears the University will have to cope with increased enrollment and offer additional services on the same budget it has now.
The largest single item slashed from the request was $781,287, which was to be used for increases in faculty salaries and additions to the faculty and staff.
"I have no comment to make."
When Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was asked about the budget hearing, he said:
The cuts, made by James Bibb, state budget director, reduced by $853,073 the amount asked for the University by the Board of Regents. The original figure was $12,648,667.
The figures reached by Bibb will be submitted by Gov. George Docking to the Legislature. That body will decide what appropriations should be made.
The Legislature has in the past restored virtually all cuts made by the budget director.
A year ago the budget division eliminated salary increases. Gov George Docking restored most of them before he submitted the budget to the Legislature.
McDill Boyd, chairman of the Board of Regents, said yesterday that no substantial cuts could be made in proposed budgets for state-supported schools "without doing damage to educational opportunities and short-changing the taxpayers."
Gov. Docking has said he has taken no stand for or against salary increases. But he added that "We should know something about where the money goes before it is appropriated."
Gov. Docking said the people of Kansas showed in November's election that they are not inclined to have their money spent carelessly by any department.
Members of the Board of Regents told Bibb yesterday that both the University and Kansas State College can expect a flood of resignations by about 400 skilled maintenance employees unless existing wage scale extensions are renewed.
Classified employees at the two schools are now paid the equivalent of about 70 per cent union scale, but
Union Announces Vacation Hours
The Kansas Union schedule for the Christmas vacation:
Saturday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday through Wednesday, and Friday through Dec. 31, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dec. 25,7 a.m.to 8 p.m.
Jan. 2 and 3, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Jan. 4, 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 1, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
would face drastic cuts if present pay rates are not continued and the employees were forced to be a part of state civil service.
Boyd said the cost of education is going up for each student. He said that for a first or second year arts and sciences student, the cost per credit hour was placed at $14.04.
For a third and fourth year and graduate student, the cost to gain an hour of college credit was $26 75
Dear Mr.
State budget officials, acting under the hold-the-line economy orders from Gov. Docking, tentatively cut this to $41,707,275. All faculty salary increases requested, amounting to $2,754,885, were cut out.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 67
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Dec. 19, 1958
Vacation Trips Begin; Clear Roads Forecast
Two weeks of parties, presents and preparations for final examinations await approximately 8,000 KU students leaving the campus today and tomorrow for the holidays.
The weather forecast for Kansas contains no snow to hamper driving
on the highways. But extreme cold is due to reach the state this afternoon to remain for five days. Low temperature readings tonight should range from 10 to 15 degrees above zero.
Local train depots and the bus
Last Two Weeks To Be Event-Full
There isn't much left of the semester. But there are a few things worth coming back to the campus for besides classes and final examinations.
The first day after Christmas vacation is the KU-Oklahoma State basketball game at Allen Field House. Play begins at 7:35 p.m.
His topic will be "Handicap of Tradition in French Politics."
Father Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, political historian at the Catholic University of Paris, France, will speak Jan. 8 at the last Humanities lecture of the semester.
Father de Sauvigny will also speak at 4 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Student Union Activities Current Events Forum on "The New French Constitution."
Allen Crafton, professor of speech,
will read western poetry at 4 p.m.
Jan 8, in the Music Room of the
Kansas Union.
Chilli Wang, pantominist, sponsored by the University Concert Course, will be here at 8:20 p.m. Jan. 9 at the University Theatre.
Jan. 10 is the KU-Missouri basketball game at Columbia and the Western Civilization Examination in Bailey Auditorium.
The KU band will present a concert at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 11 in the University Theatre.
Kansan Publication To Resume Jan. 5
Today's Daily Kansan is the last issue to be published until after Christmas vacation. Publication will resume Jan. 5. The Kansan staff wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
AWAY WE GO!!—Loading luggage into their car to take home for Christmas are from left, Cozy
Work,Party Vacation Aims
Chappell and Ellen Wolf, both freshmen from Kansas City, Mo. (Photo by Niki Economy)
Christmas cheer and Santa's here. And what are you doing for the rest of the year?
Here's what some students are going to do:
Patricia Ringo, Parsons junior: "Help my sister get married, write a philosophy term paper, study, party, have guests, sleep, party."
Robert C. Harwi, Lawrence senior: "I'll spend all the vacation in Lawrence, slaving over a 60-page paper, and I'm not too happy about it."
Annette Johnson, Hutchinson senior: "I'm for Christmas cheer. I'll be so full of Christmas spirit you'll never believe it."
Marjorie Wilson, Larned freshman: "Study, eat, sleep and party. Get up at 8, to bed by 1. But I probably won't study much next week. I'll wait until after Christmas."
Michael Zakoura, Osawatomie junior: "I'm going
home to study everything in general and Westernr Civilization in particular."
Louren Wood, Richland, Mo., senior; "I am heading for the Missouri hills."
Kenneth Perry, High Ridge, N.J., graduate student: "I'll return to New Jersey to visit my family and to go partying."
Loy Brown, Hutchinson sophomore: "The same thing everybody else is doing. Use your imagination."
John McHugh, Wichita graduate student: "I'll deliver mail with a jeep all over Wichita. After Christmas I'll have to do some work on my Jaguar."
Jon Bergstrom, Kansas City, Mo., senior; "Study diligently for long and hard hours."
Louanna Cole, Raytown, Mo., sophomore: "Four term papers."
station were crowded this morning as students completed arrangements for their trips home.
Both train stations and the bus depot reported a rush on ticket sales last night and this morning.
The Sante Fe Railroad office said their reserve seat trains have been sold out for several days. However, the company will add extra chair cars for the exodus of students, and none will be refused a ticket.
Union Pacific and Rock Island ticket agents said this morning that they are accepting reservations for some destinations, but that most of their reserve seat trains will be filled by late this afternoon. They also will add extra chair cars.
The bus depot has sold more tickets than usual the past week, but enough extra buses were put into service for today and tomorrow to accommodate the expected number of customers.
Campus Police Chief Joe Skillman advises students whose cars failed to pass the safety check last Tuesday to have the defects corrected. Their cars may be rechecked today and tomorrow at the University police station.
Chief Skillman said the cars will receive OK stickers if the faults are corrected. The sticker will keep the student from being stopped by high-way patrol safety checks on the way home, he added.
The maintenance crew also will make periodic checks on empty apartments during the vacation.
The housing office distributed circulars to Sunnyside residents advising them to have the maintenance department adjust their heating units if they plan to leave their apartments for several days.
The restrictions on parking on Javhawk Boulevard, parking zones H and J, and all loading zones will be enforced during the holidays. All other parking zones will be open for unrestricted parking, beginning tomorrow noon.
Meanie Ignites KU Yule Tree
Fire damaged the Christmas tree atop the Chi Omega fountain at 12:30 this morning after an unidentified person threw a bottle of kerosene at the tree.
Jayne Allen, Topeka senior, told campus police she was looking out a window in the Chi Omega sorority house and saw a person run by the fountain and throw an object at the tree.
Police later determined the object to be a bottle of kerosene. The police are investigating the incident. The fire caused minor damage to the tree and electrical wiring.
Library to Have Shorter Hours
Watson Library will begin a shorter hour schedule Monday and continue it through Jan. 3.
Hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on weekdays and from 8 a.m. until
noon on Saturdays. The library
will be closed Christmas Day, New
Year's Day, and Sundays.
Tomorrow's library hours will be the usual 8 a.m. to noon. The regular weekday hours of 7:45 to 10 p.m. will resume Jan. 5.
Each branch library will post its own hours, which in most cases will be the same as Watson Library.