Index
Election outlook for 1960 ... p. 2
Role of businessman's wife ... p. 3
KU-Nebraska game precede ... p. 5
Little Symphony review ... p. 8
Daily hansan
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Weather
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Slow clearing and continued cool this afternoon. Clearing tonight and cooler most of state. Low temperatures 25 to 32.
56th Year, No. 40
Thursday, Nov. 6, 1958
Board of Regents Submits Pension Plan for Faculty
A new contributory retirement pension plan for faculty members will be submitted to the state legislature at its next meeting.
failure at its next meeting. The plan, recommended by the Board of Regents, was brought to the Faculty Senate yesterday.
The proposed plan would require the faculty member to contribute 5 per cent of his salary to a fund, in addition to social security. The state would contribute an equal amount. Upon retirement at the age of 70, if he has given 35 years of service, the faculty member would receive a pension almost equal to half of his yearly salary for his last five years of employment. This would include the social security benefits.
The plan will be for the faculty only. The University's civil service staff is included in a provision for all other state employees. The latter group will probably be subject to new legislation later this year.
The plan will be handled through an insurance company which specializes in such programs. An annuity contract for each covered faculty member will be written.
If the faculty member should leave the University, he will be able to transfer the contract and the accrued benefits to another university with a similar plan.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said the
proposed plan provides for faculty members who are near the retirement age. These people could purchase additional annuity, and thus receive credit for prior service.
Nichols emphasized that the entire proposal must go through the legislature before it can become effective. He mentioned that such a plan was approved by both major political parties in their Kansas platforms this year.
The current pension plan for all University employees is on a non-contributory basis, except for the social security portion. There are no cash or survivor benefits from the plan.
Governor's Victory 'Personal'
Gov. George Docking's victory on Tuesday was more a personal triumph than an extension of the Democratic landslide which swept the nation.
This opinion was expressed yesterday noon at the Faculty Forum by John G. Grumm, assistant professor of political science. Ray Nichols, Lawrence junior, also spoke
"We are entering a new phase of Kansas history with our second term Democratic governor," Prof. Grumm said, "but the factors that caused his victory are not the same factors that produced the national Democratic triumph."
Prof. Grumm pointed out there
has been no farm depression in Kansas and no serious unemployment. Unemployment and the depression were factors which helped the Democrats nationally.
"The most significant factor in the Docking victory was the large labor vote. The astute political consciousness of Docking, and on a lesser scale, the national trend to the Democratic party also contributed."
Prof. Grumm said Gov. Docking has great appeal to both the independent voter and some Republicans.
"He is not a radical Democrat," said Prof. Grumm.
The Goldwater victory in Arizona was attributed by Prof. Grumm to
the gregarious personality of the candidate himself and to the economic condition of the state.
"National economic trends were not felt in Arizona," he said. "The state is enjoying an unprecedented prosperity and many of its inhabitants are financially secure people who have just moved in."
Prof. Grumm said the Rockefeller-Harriman race in New York was a personality match. He said the most attractive personality won.
Ray Nichols said two significant issues resulted from the election.
"Rockefeller is now a contender for the presidential nomination in 1960 and Governor Docking has possibilities for national prominence," he said.
Docking Lead Climbs; Demo Gains Continue
TOPEKA —(UPI)—Gov. George Docking's lead continued to climb in late counted votes today and it appeared he had pulled several other state officers into office in the Democratic landslide.
Docking thumped Republican Clyde Reed by what appeared to be a 100,000 vote margin, a convincing show of strength, while in other areas the Democrats increased their strength in Congress by two, possibly three, seats.
Still hanging in doubt was the sixth district where Rep. Wint Smith held a 34-vote lead over Democrat Elmo Mahoney.
Unofficial returns showed Democrats leading for state treasurer, state printer, Supreme Court position No. 1, and lieutenant governor, plus threatening in the attorney general's race and for Supreme Court position No. 2.
Perhaps one of the biggest surprises came in the treasurer's race where George Hart upset veteran
Republican treasurer Richard T. Fadely who has held the office since 1947.
Docking climbed to a margin of 100,101 over Reed with 2,874 of the state's 2,999 precincts counted, showing 398,212 votes to Reed's 298,111.
In the tight sixth district race, where Smith has narrowly missed defeat the two previous elections, returns from 546 of 551 precincts showed Smith 43,301, Mahoney 43,267.
Smith declined to claim victory pending official county canvasses and the counting of in-state absentee ballots. However, he said he had checked all 26 counties and was leading by 221 votes in complete but unofficial returns.
The Democrats picked up two congressional seats when Newell George beat Errett Scrivener in the second district and Denver Hargis beat Myron George in the third district.
Industrialist Blasts Ike, Dulles
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—Cyrus Eaton, wealthy industrialist who recently made a trip to Russia, said yesterday the national Democratic avalanche was a reflection of feeling toward the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy.
reorganization of our government.' He said the first move toward better American government is to oust Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
He told a Kansas City Chamber of Commerce group that the widespread Republican defeat in Tuesday's election called for a "drastic
Scientists to Try Another Moon Shot
"He is no more capable of negotiating an understanding with Khrushchev than a drunk man would be of swimming the English Channel." Eaton declared.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—The Air Force may try around 12:25 a.m. CST tomorrow to throw a package of instruments around the moon.
If the spacemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla., do not get the moon shot
off at that hour, they will have other chances early Saturday and early Sunday.
False Alarm Fire
Authorities said on Monday that the Air Force hoped to take its third shot at the moon within a week
Mrs. Willard Washington, a resident of Sunnyside apartments, called the fire department yesterday when she noticed that the extension cord leading to her iron was beginning to smoke. Chief John W. Miller of the Lawrence fire department said it was simply a case of too many appliances on one cord.
AUTUMN LEAVES—Some leaves are to rake, and some leaves are to sit in. Linda Michael, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, indicates with a big smile that the kind for sitting in are far the most pleasant.
Some Prankster Has Skeleton in His Closet
Whooo dunit?
Whoob didnt:
A $150 human skeleton is still missing after being stolen from the anatomy laboratory last week.
Dr. Paul Roofe, professor of anatomy, said the loss was inconvenient because it deprived the department of an important teaching tool.
Campus and city officials have been notified of the theft, but so far no one knows whose closet the skeleton could be in.
Swinging the skeleton is an old KU prank, first done in 1874 when students lowered a skeleton through the uncompleted roof of Fraser Hall into a group of faculty and students attending chapel exercises.
Campus police chief Joe Skillman said his department is checking
several leads, but no results have been reported.
University officials felt that the 1874 prank was humorous, but that this one has caused a great deal of inconvenience and could even cause harm to a valuable piece of teaching equipment.
KU Senior Wins Seat in State Legislature on Republican Ticket
Tom Van Sickle, Fort Scott senior, is one Republican who won in a normally Democratic district in Tuesday's elections.
Van Sickle, according to complete but unofficial election returns, will be the new state representative to the Kansas legislature from the 18th district.
Ancil Dalton, Fort Scott, Van Sickle's opponent, was unsuccessful in his third bid for the 18th district seat. Van Sickle received 2,394 votes to Dalton's 2,363.
"Apparently quite a few Democrats voted for me, because there are more Democrats registered in my district than Republicans," Van Sickle said. He continued:
"One of the reasons for my success, I think, is the boost my campaign received when I visited the Republican party rally in Wichita and was introduced to Vice-President Richard Nixon. A picture of Nixon shaking my hand appeared on the front page of the Ft. Scott Tribune the day before the election."
Van Sickle said it was a campaign of personalities rather than issues. Neither he nor Dalton took a stand on the right to work amendment or the sales tax increase issue which made for a quiet campaign he said.
1 trailed in the election returns
until the last precinct came in at 3:30 Wednesday morning. As it turned out, Dalton carried six precincts, I carried six and we tied in one. It was a very close race, but six precincts are two more than the Republican candidate got in the last election," Van Sickle said.
When asked what he thought about Gov. George Docking's reelection, Van Sickle said:
"Kansas is in for two more years
Tom Van Sickle
of dissension between the legislature and Gov. Docking. The first thing Docking will try to do is repeal the half-event increase in the sales tax. The first thing I am going to do is ask where we are going to get $13 million."
He said if the sales tax is cut, the only way Gov. Docking could get the money would be by increasing property taxes eight or nine per cent.
On the problem of raising money, Van Sickle said:
"Gov. Docking is going to have to realize that we cannot have the kind of service we are having now, and increase it with such things as a state employee retirement plan and better educational systems, without having more money.
"Docking's tax program so far has resembled a patch work quilt. He wants to raise needed funds without antagonizing any particular group," he said.
Van Sickle said he was disappointed to learn that Rep. Erret P. Scriviner lost his House seat to Newell George. He said:
"I don't think the people weighed the facts when they voted for George. It has taken 16 years to get a Kansas representative right on top in seniority in the appropriations subcommittee of the Armed Service Committee. Now we will have to start all over again with an inexperienced man."