Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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The Kansas House cut $1,500,-000 for state aid to high schools out of a senate-passed bill and today sent the measure back to the upper chamber for concurrence in the amendments.
Kansas House Cuts Aid To High Schools
HONORARY KANSAN—Dwight Payton, new president of the William Allen White Foundation (left), congratulates Martin Fruhman, Dallas, Tex., after Mr. Fruhman was declared an "honorary Kansan" Monday by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at the foundation's annual meeting. Mr. Fruhman shows Mr. Payton another of his recent awards, a card identifying him as a commodore in the Missouri River Navy.
The House trimmed a portion of a big 57 million dollar distribution bill from full formula of $8,000,000 for high school aid to $6,500,000. The 1957 Legislature gave the high schools the same amount.
A disputed vote on Gov. Docking's proposed changes in the state income tax laws was expected to necessitate a second roll call today in the Senate. The measure, designed to bring in an estimated $5,000 annually, was apaparently killed by a 20-14 vote, but elersks who tabulated the roll call disagreed.
Blizzard-scattered sections of New York state braced today for up to 18 inches of new snow while the winter's worst cold wave has touched off a hazardous ice storm from Texas to Alabama and Mississippi.
The cold wave ranged from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast with no relief in sight. A United Press survey showed at least 54 deaths blamed on the cold, snow, ice roads and fires since Thursday night.
Two films commemorating Abraham Lincoln's birthday this-month, "The Face of Lincoln" and "Emancipation Proclamation," will be shown Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Bailey projection room.
In Washington, the government announced today a rise of more than 1.000,000 unemployed in January to the highest figure since the recession winter of 1950.
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The January total was 4,494,000.
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks said Sunday that unemployment may rise as high as five
The first film is concerned with American history and art. Merrrel Gage, University of Southern California, is shown making a clay bust of Lincoln while recounting incidents in his life.
Two Movies Honor Lincoln
"Emancipation Proclamation" is one of the "You Are There" TV films. It is set in Jan. 1, 1863, preceding the famous decision by Lincoln to free the slaves.
Sen. John F. Kennedy, (D-Mass) accused the administration today of dangerous action in North Africa. He called for international moves to settle the explosive French-Arab situation lest all North Africa "fall to our enemies."
million this month followed by a prompt decline.
There were strong hints that the United States would not back France in the bombing action. Congressional leaders stated that the "U.N. cannot have one rule for small aggressors and another for large aggressors."
Mr. Kennedy urged that the U.S. government ask the United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization "to assert jurisdiction over this threat to world peace."
Rep. Morgan M. Moulder resigned as chairman today and two aides quit as staff members of a House subcommittee which had been investigating alleged misconduct in federal regulatory agencies.
In Amman, Jordan, King Feisal of Iraq flew here today to discuss a possible merger with King Hussein of Jordan that could take Iraq out of the American-sponsored Baghdad pact.
They resigned as a result of the subcommittee's action Monday night in firing its chief counsel, Dr. Bernard Schwartz.
Young Hussein was reported anxious for a union with oil-rich Iraq to counter the new merger of Syria and Egypt into a federated Arab state.
The rings around the planet Saturn are composed of tiny, highly reflective solid particles or "moonlets."
Such a plan has been inaugurated at Georgia Institute of Technology by its inter-fraternity council to help pledges through their crucial first year.
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The courses offered in the tutoring curriculum include mathematics, English and chemistry They are open to all pledges, but mandatory for freshmen who need the tutoring according to their fraternity.
Stuart Gunckel, Kansas City, Mo. senior and president of the Interfraternity Council—"For pledges who are in trouble, this could be a great help. As for saying how far you should go in forcing pledges to attend, I don't know."
Five persons interviewed in a Daily Kansan poll last weekend indicated they would favor a plan of tutoring for freshman fraternity pledges.
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Malcolm Applegate, Topeka senior—I think it would help. Most entering freshmen have the most trouble with those three courses. Very few high schools give the proper background for English at the college level."
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Gerald Work, Flint, Mich., freshman. "I would be glad to go provided the classes didn't take too much outside time."
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Bob Haines, Manhattan junior— "It would be a good idea, if it were accepted seriously and the fraternities would back it. If there were weak links, the whole thing would fall apart."
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Ted Morris, Wichita sophomore— "A good idea. Freshmen are away from home for the first time, and need help because most of them haven't developed study habits."
Bradford Sheafer, Topeka junior — "Any extra help a freshman can get is a good thing."
John Redick, Kansas City, Kan. freshman—If I were required to go, I wouldn't like it. If it weren't compulsory, I would probably take advantage of the tutoring to catch up if I fell behind."
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