Publications Bill to ASC
The All Student Council is expected to discuss and vote tonight on the publications bill. The meeting will be in the Kansas Union.
The publications bill combines two proposals previously submitted by Fred Morrison, Colby senior, and Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior. Morrison's bill provided for reorganization of the publications committee from a five-member to a three-member board.
EBERHART'S BILL asked for reserve funds for each campus publication and for a general reserve fund from which any publication could draw if the specified amount in the publications reserve had been used.
Harley Russell, Topeka senior and chairman of the committee on committees, said the discussion and the ASC vote will be done by the present members before the newly-elected members are sworn in.
"MEMBERS OF THE present council are acquainted with the publications bill and its problems," Russell said. "They are able to understand the bill better than new members."
Russell said there would also be a report on the sales of "Spectrum" magazine and a report from the investigation of the KU financial condition. Last February the ASC voted that the University pay off Spectrum's $1,688.55 debt in bills until the ASC decides how to pay the deficit.
The final report will contain a proposed plan to the ASC of the essential qualities needed for a successful campus magazine.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No.117
Tuesday, April 11, 1961
KU 'Pleased'by State Legislature
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said today KU is "extremely pleased" with the actions of the 1961 Kansas legislature in regard to the University.
"KU takes a long step forward as a result of three measures affecting us which were passed by the legislature." Mr. Nichols said.
The three actions:
- An accelerated building program was passed, providing $3,500,000 for KU building projects.
- JAMES E. GUNN, administrative assistant to the chancellor in charge of University relations, said construction probably will begin in July on an engineering school building, for which the Educational Building Fund (EBF) provides $1,375,000.
- A funded, contributory retirement plan was established for faculty members.
- The fund provides $1,800,000 for an annex to Watson Library, and $350,000 for an addition to the classrooms and research facilities of the Natural History Museum.
- The operating budget which the Board of Regents requested for the next fiscal year was granted in full.
Mr. Gunn said construction on the library annex probably will start in early 1962 and should take about two
years. Work on the Museum addition probably will begin in the fall and take about a year.
THE EBF also provides $30,000 to plan the remodeling or rebuilding of Blake Hall.
SPEAKING OF THE retirement
program passed by the legislature. Mr. Nichols said the University had won a "major victory."
"This retirement program will improve considerably the University's competitive position in the national market for teachers," Mr. Nichols said.
Memorial May Be Set Up for Nurse
A Memorial Fund or a Service Plaque to the memory of Mrs. Elma R. Stauffer may be established in Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Stauffer, who gave the past 18 years to service in Watkins Hospital, was killed in an automobile accident south of Salina Saturday. She was 64 years old.
DR. RALPH CANUTESON, director of the Student Public Health Service, said the plans were still not certain, but a plaque seemed to be the more feasible plan. The plaque would hang in the hospital as a reminder to students and faculty members of the service Mrs. Stauffer gave to KU.
Mrs. Stauffer was born near Salina. She was married there and she and her husband settled near New Cambria, a small farming community.
Mrs. Elma Stauffer
"Mrs. Stauffer was a kind person." Dr. Ralph Canuteson said. "She was always doing favors for others and was good with the students. She could help them with their German or their political science and carry on an extremely interesting conversation. When you discussed politics with her, you had to be well informed."
HER HUSBAND DIED, leaving her with two small children. She
then decided to go into nursing to make enough money to care for her children.
Mrs. Stauffer took her nurses training at Asbury Hospital in Salina. Just as she was to finish her degree, Kansas passed a law requiring nurses to have a high school diploma.
Mrs. Stauffer had completed only eight grades. She then began studying and finished the equivalent of a high school education at the same time earning her nurses degree.
She took graduate nurse's training at Lying-In Hospital in Chicago and worked at Stanford-Lane University Hospital in San Francisco, Calif.
SHE CAME TO LAWRENCE in 1942 to work in Watkins and study political science. By 1947 she had completed her studies and graduated that year with Phi Beta Kappa honors, at the age of 50.
To further her knowledge, Mrs. Stauffer applied for and received a staff position at the American Hospital in Paris. She worked there during 1951-1952.
She continued her class work and had received almost enough credit hours for her master's degree.
Mrs. Stauffer and her daughter, Mrs.T. W. Sanderson of Salina, were returning from a trip to visit Mrs. Stauffer's great-great-grandson.
SHE RETURNED TO KU to continue her position here as director of nursing service at Watkins.
The legislature has authorized the Board of Regents to set up a retirement program which will include most faculty members. Under this plan, the faculty member will contribute 5 per cent of his salary to a retirement fund, and his contribution will be matched by the state.
The car skidded on the wet pavement and slid into a ditch. Mrs. Stauffer was thrown from the car.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Guy R. Ryan and Sons' Mortuary in Salina. Rev. Harold Hamilton, Lawrence Trinity Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Mrs. Stauffer is survived by her daughter and a son, Walter, of Wichita.
Weather
KANSAS — Cloudy and windy this afternoon with snow Northwest and occasional showers east portion gradually diminishing tonight. Colder west this afternoon and over state tonight.
Mr. Nichols explained that a 5 per cent increase in the salary budget was granted by the legislature. The take-home pay of faculty members participating in the retirement plan will not be cut.
THE OPERATING BUDGET provides for creation of 24 faculty positions and five non-faculty positions. Also in the budget is $60,000 in additional operating funds.
Mr. Nichols said the operating budget requests of the Board of Regents were held to a minimum because the board wanted the building and retirement programs to get the major emphasis.
BLAKE MAY GO- Looking over a building which may be razed are F. S. Rowland, associate professor of chemistry, left, and H. C. Lee, Seoul, Korea, graduate student. The state educational building fund provides $30,000 to plan for remodeling or rebuilding Blake Hall.
United Press International reported today that Gov. John Anderson has signed into law the bill providing accelerated building funds.
Bids for construction of three major buildings at KU and Kansas State will be requested in about one month.
The state architect's office said plans have been completed for the buildings and officials said that it was likely that a start on the construction can begin in early summer.
Examination Times Are Corrected
The registrar's office today announced the following changes in the final examination schedule:
The 10 a.m., TTS sequence will take five tests at 3:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30, not Wednesday, May 31, The 1 p.m., TTS sequence will meet at 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31, not May 30. The 3 p.m., MWF sequence will be held at 10:10 noon on Wednesday, May 31, not from 1:30 p.m. to 3:20, May 31.
Eichmann Faces Israeli Judges
JERUSALEM — (UPI) — Adolf Eichmann opened the fight for his life today by challenging the right of three Israeli judges to try him on charges of being history's worst mass murderer. The first day of the trial was dismissed at 11:30 a.m. Lawrence time.
He went on trial at 1 a.m. Lawrence time today in a courthouse inside a fortress patrolled from cellar to roof by hundreds of Israeli soldiers armed with submachine guns.
After 16 years in hiding and jail Eichmann walked into public view when he entered the bullet proof glass defendant's box in the court room. Except for a moment of apparent nervousness as he first looked about the court room through heavy horn-rimmed glasses the accused mass murderer was still very much the Nazi colonel.
DURING THE LONG reading of the indictment against him he stood ramrod-stiff, hands at his side, his eyes riveted on the three judges who will decide his fate. Once or twice he swayed slightly but otherwise he was like a waxen image without a flicker of emotion.
The first order of business after court convened was the reading of the indictment.
Presiding judge Landau ordered Eichmann to rise inside the box. "Are you Adolf, the son of Karl Adolf Eichmann?" The judge asked.
“Ja,” Eichmann replied in German.
"YOU ADOLF, the son of Karl Adolf Eichmann, are charged by the state of Israel with the following," Landau said.
The judge then read a 15-count indictment against Eichmann and each count felt like a lash across his back.
Robert Servatius, a German attorney for the defense, then challenged the jurisdiction of the court, making these rapid fire alligations;
—That Eichmann was illegally kidnapped from Argentina and flown to Israel.
—That a special set of laws passed by the Israeli parliament for the trial and punishment of Nazis violated international law.
—That at least one of the judges, unidentified, had disqualified himself for this case because of a verdict in a similar litigation.
—That all three judges might be prejudiced because members of their families might have been victims of the Nazi terror.
THE COURT DID not rule immediately on the plea for disqualification.
—That a deposition Eichmann signed in Buenos Aires stating he was willing to return to Israel for trial was forced out of him by threats and duress exerted by the Israeli agents who kidnapped him.
When Servatius finished the Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner, defended the qualifications of the court and the legality of Eichmann's arrest and trial.
He still was speaking when the luncheon recess was taken.
Hausner insisted Israel could try Eichmann because neither the West German Government no other state had claimed that right. He told the judges that "no one can insist that you be neutral in the face of such crimes, but you can be fair."
"Even judges who bear the marks of such a crime in their hearts can conduct a fair trial," he said.
SERVATIUS WENT into the question of the qualification of the iudges.
"The opinion of one of the judges might be determined by the fact members of his family were affected by the crimes of which my client is accused," he said.
"The accused is unable to bring the witnesses he needs for his defense. Not only hasn't he the means but since most of those who would appear in his defense are former S.S. officers they are barred from appearing here as there is no doubt that Israel recognizes the basic principles of the law of nations. The law for the punishment of the nazis and their collaborators (a series of special laws passed by the Israeli parliament) is a contravention of the law of nations.
"I so suggest that the court declare it has no authority to deal with the case. The law of the punishment of nazis is counter to the law of na-
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