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Daily Hansan
Monday, Feb. 17, 1958
55th Year, No. 88
Campus Car Ban Possible In 1960's
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The present generation of KU students will still be able to drive to school, but their children may have to walk.
Cars or Pedestrians
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations, and Joe Skillman, campus police chief, agreed in an interview Friday that swelling future enrollment may force a ban of automobiles on campus during class hours.
When KU enrollment booms in the 1960's to an expected 15,000, traffic congestion will force us to make a choice between cars and pedestrians. Mr. Lawton said.
He said the congestion was "not a possibility, but a foregone conclusion. One or the other will have to give way." It won't be the pedestrian, Mr. Lawton said.
Problem Began Late 1940's
Mr. Skillman said of the future car ban, "It's a possibility. However, there's no definite plan at present. When we get up to 15,000, we'd better have some plans ready."
Mr. Lawton explained the current campus car problem started in the late 1940's when general prosperity made it possible for many more students to own cars.
"Our problem is not so much a parking problem as a traffic problem." he said.
Parking permits are now granted to those who have a physical disability, those living far from the campus, or those who have a tight schedule between an outside job and classes.
There is enough parking space for people in these categories Mr. Lawton said. "For the average, healthy student, living close to the campus, we feel walking won't hurt him."
Mr. Lawton said there are several ways traffic could be barred from the campus during class hours, but the University has no definite plans yet. By the time the enrollment boom makes the step necessary, the administration will have methods worked out, he said.
678 In Education School
Enrollment in the School of Education for the Spring semester totals 678 undergraduates, Dean Kenneth E. Anderson reported today.
120 Stalls For New Apartments
Parking capacity for the 10 new Stouffer Place apartments now being built will be the same as for the present buildings, J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said today.
Mr. Wilson said the new buildings would have 120 parking spaces, or one for each apartment.
He also said parking plans for Joseph R. Pearson dormitory, also under construction, are still indefinite. The dormitory parking space will be what is now the north part of Zone A, but the specific parking capacity has not been decided yet, Mr. Wilson said.
Stouffer Place residents have complained that parking space is inadequate.
Pay Those Fees Before 4 p.m.
Time is running out for the student who wants to pay his fees without additional charge for late payment. The deadline for payment of fees is 4 p.m. today.
After today the student will be charged $2 per day for late payment. If the fees are still not paid by Friday enrollment will be cancelled.
If a student's enrollment is cancelled the only way he can re-enroll is to pay a $5 fine for late enrollment and a $6 fine for late payment of fees.
New Retirement Plan Favored In Early Returns
Early returns on a faculty committee questionnaire indicate most faculty members are in favor of a funded retirement plan.
Dr. Harold C. Krogh, associate professor of business administration, said Sunday the committee had received about 150 questionnaires, and faculty opinion "seems to be predominantly in favor of the plan." Dr. Krogh is chairman of the retirement plan committee of the KU chapter of the American Assn. of University Professors.
Under the present retirement plan, maximum retirement pay is $2.782 a year. Under the funded plan, faculty members would pay five per cent of their salaries and have retirement pay of 50 per cent of their highest annual income.
He said the committee would need two or three weeks to evaluate all the questionnaires. If the plan is approved, he said, the results will be presented to the KU chapter of the AAUP, which would then present the results to the administration.
"Some of those answering the questionnaires said they would not object to the plan if it were voluntary," Dr. Krogh said. "The questionnaires are just to see if we can get an endorsement for looking into the possibilities of a funded plan."
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said "Most state retirement plans are compulsory," although there could be exemptions by a waiting period before participation was necessary, or exemption for certain faculty ranks."
Acceptance of a new retirement plan would require a new law from the state Legislature, Mr. Nichols said. Before passing such a law, the Legislature would probably ask the University to see if the faculty were interested.
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE—Or more precisely, before the Big 8 Talent Show in Hoch Auditorium Saturday night. Left, rehearsing before the show is Gary Foster, Lawrence senior, who plays tenor saxophone with the Don Conard Quartet, a KU jazz group that performed in the show. Above are three maids from Missouri—the Coed Trio. From left, Sandy Sobolik, Sharon Houska, and Shirley Chad. (Daily Kansan photos by Lou Hoell)
U.S. Economy Needs Boost
Recession Will Continue Faculty Members Predict
Nothing the present administration has done will bring about a recovery from the "recession," Leland J. Pritchard, professor of economics and business administration, said in a Daily Kansan interview Friday.
String Quartet To Play Friday
The Netherlands String Quartet will appear at 8 p.m. Friday in Swarthout Recital Hall as the third offering in the chamber music series.
The quartet is a replacement for the originally scheduled Amsterdam Duo which was broken up last year by the death of a member, Alice Heksch, wife of Nap de Klijn, founder of the Netherlands String Quartet.
Quartet members are Mr. de Klijn, first violin; Jaap Schroeder, second violin; Paul Goodwin, viola; and Carel Boomkamp, cello.
At its 1952 debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the quartet was unanimously acclaimed by critics.
The group has toured The Netherlands, Switzerland, England, Germany and South Africa. It is making its first appearance in this country. The Dutch government offered the quartet as a substitute for the Amsterdam Duo.
The program will include Quartet in D minor, K 421 (Mozart), Quartet No. 1, Opus 7, (Bartok), and Quartet in D major (Franck).
Students will be admitted by ID cards.
Kansas Business Moves Upward
Business in Kansas, with the exception of meat packing, showed an upward trend for October, November, and December as compared with the same months last year, reported the January Kansas Business Review of the Bureau of Business Research.
However, volume compared with the preceding months showed a marked decrease, with the exception of petroleum production, which showed a 5.3 per cent gain.
Meat packing was down 14.4 per cent in November from the volume in November 1956.
There were eight business failures in October, the same number as that of a year ago. Total business failures in the U.S. were 1,222.
New cars sold in Kansas, as indicated by motor vehicle registration, showed an 11.5 per cent increase over the number sold a year ago.
Traffic Hearing Set For KU Senior
Hearing has been set for Friday for Warren Jay Willcoxen, Arkansas City senior who was arrested by Lawrence police at 1:05 a.m. Sunday and charged with driving while intoxicated.
The business student was arrested at 17th and Massachusetts Street when police officers noticed his car swerving in the street. Willcoxen poster $500 bond.
"I doubt that there will be a recovery in the second half of the year as the President has forecast," Prof. Pritchard said.
Manuel Gottlieb, associate professor of economics, said President Eisenhower's prediction of an economic upturn in the second half of the year "could be supported," but that he "wouldn't take it for granted."
The nation's economic downturn, now in its fifth month, has raised unemployment to four and one-half million, cut steel production to 54 per cent of capacity and caused railroad car loadings to trail those of last year by 20 per cent.
The anti-recession campaign in Washington has so far involved plans to increase spending on defense, highways, and the post office system. Borrowing restraints have been eased through the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency.
Shot-In-Arm Needed
Prof. Pritchard said, "A real inflatatory shot-in-the-arm is needed to arrest this downswing. The Federal Reserve should have a dramatic excess of reserves pumped into the system. The discount rate should have been dropped more and sooner.
"There is a need to change taxes," he said. "The little man lacks the money to keep things moving. We need to raise income tax exemptions for the lower income groups and abolish sales taxes."
Prof. Gottlieb favored tax reductions and a corresponding increase of the debt limit.
Prof. Pritchard said, "This is the first time since World War II that our economy has run out of steam." According to him, the country doesn't have the same production demand backlogs which helped it through the last two recessions.
"A tax reduction without a corresponding increase of the debt limit is not feasible," he said. "Tax reductions should be strategically placed to stimulate recovery and to foster long-term growth."
Economy Out Of Steam
"This lack of steam could trigger a capital goods decline; a real depression," he said. "I think that Congress will act to stop this, but not too quickly."
According to Prof. Gottlieb, the psychological effect is important. "The businessman and the consumer must have confidence to keep spending. A sufficient percentage drop in business expenditures could affect others and snowball into a depression."
Weather
Variable cloudiness and continued cold through Tuesday with occasional light snow west portion tonight and central and west Tuesday. Not quite so cold north central tonight. Low tonight zero to 5 extreme northeast to 15 to 20 southwest.