Budget Includes 5% Salary Raise
Daily hansan
55th Year No.73
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Building Program Continues Growth
KU's construction program continues to expand as Business School bids open in Topeka, landscaping nears completion and construction begins on new buildings.
Bids were to have been opened at 2 p.m. today in Topeka for the construction of a $1,350,000 School of Business.
The building will be built north of Sunnyside Avenue and south of Malott Hall, where eight Sunnyside apartment buildings formerly were situated.
Built On Two Levels
It will be built on two levels, four stories in the west wing and three stories in the east wing. The exterior will be of glass curtain wall and masonry of light-colored brick.
The largest construction project now underway on the campus is the building of Joseph R. Pearson dormitory on West Campus Road north of Carruth-O'Leary dormitory.
The Pearson dormitory will house 416 men, and will have an estimated cost of $1,525,000. The initial funds of $175,000 were donated by Mrs Joseph R. Pearson.
A project soon to be completed is the landscape construction around the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The work being done now includes putting in a service drive, sidewalks, underground drainage facilities, fire hydrant lines, steam tunnels and doing contour grading.
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations, said the project should be done by the end of January, with the exception of the asphalt service drive, which cannot be put in until spring.
Addition To Stouffer Place
Engineers and the stake-out crew are now working on the site of the Stouffier Place addition. Construction on this project should begin soon.
The addition of 10 buildings with 12 apartments each will double the size of Stouffer Place at 19th and Iowa Streets. It will go in northeast of the present buildings and will cost one million dollars.
Another building project soon to be started will be the construction of two dormitories at the Daisy Field site, southeast of the intersection at 15th and Iowa Streets. One of the dormitories will be named Luther N. Lewis Hall. Each will house 430 students.
University Gets $40,300 Grant
The National Science Foundation has made a grant of $40,300 for two years of research on "Geometry of Function Space" by members of the department of mathematics. Dr. G. Baley Price, department chairman, is project director.
The grant provides for continuance of basic mathematical research conducted at KU the past three years, Dr. Price said. Among the staff are Professor Nachman Aronszain; Arthur H. Kruse, assistant professor; William R. Scott, associate professor; Professor George Springer and Dr. Price, and several graduate students.
Dr. Price said research assistantship appointments on the new project had not been made.
The National Science Foundation currently is sponsoring other mathematical research at KU by Prof Robert Schatten and the new computation center.
He Was Worried About Own Pants
A reporter for The Daily Kansan was interviewing the director of the Natural History Museum the other day for a story on a pair of Gen. Custer's riding breeches.
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1958
While she had the pants on in the lobby of the museum, a lady visitor came over to admire them. Her 10 or 11-year-old son came up too.
these are Custet's riding breeches," the lady told her son. The reporter braced herself for an expected attack of enthusiasm. The boy looked faintly curious and then said to his mother, "I can't find the rest room."
"These are Custer's riding breeches," the lady told her son.
Symphony To Play Instructor's Music
"Prologue and Fugue," a composition by George C. Green, instructor of organ and theory, will be performed Sunday by the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra. It will be broadcast over the Mutual radio network on Feb. 2.
The composition has been performed only once before, at the contemporary American music symposium at the University of the Redlands in California.
Mr. Green came to KU in 1954 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he received his bachelor of music degree in 1952 and his master of music degree in 1953. He also studied at Cornell University and the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.
Snow To Blanket Entire State By Tonight
TOPEKA — (UP) — Balmy weather abruptly changed today under the onslaught of two cold waves that were expected to tumble temperatures to 15 to 20 degrees and bring snow to all of Kansas by tonight.
A cool Pacific front moved from west to east through Kansas early today. It will be followed by another front with arctic air.
Light rain will be followed by snow. Some light snows were reported early today at Goodland.
Snow east and central portions tions tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy west diminishing cloudiness east. Colder tonight and east portion Wednesday. Low tonight 10 to 15 northwest to 20s southeast. High Wednesday 20s northeast to 30s southwest.
Weather
Low this morning 39. Low Monday 37, high 43.
The U.S. Weather Bureau issued livestock warnings in northwestern Kansas where blowing snow and frigid temperatures were expected to accompany the icy blast.
Less Than An Inch
The U.S. Weather Bureau estimated an accumulation of less than an inch in most areas, except for the northwest. An accumulation of 2-3 inches is possible here.
By Mid-day, snow had spread into central Kansas with Salina, Hill City, Russell and Dodge City reporting snow as well as Goodland. Light rain was falling at St. Joseph, Joplin, Butler, Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City.
GOV. GEORGE DOCKING
Remember Your Inventory Sheet
The inventory sheet was introduced for the first time at enrollment for the 1957 spring semester. It becomes a permanent part of the student's transcript for the use of prospective employers and recognition.
Students will receive an activities inventory sheet at enrollment time and will be asked to return the completed sheet when they pay their fees according to Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. senior and All Student Council Chairman.
Students are to list all activities they are taking part in, such as professional and honorary organizations and clubs.
The inventory sheets will be handed out in the Kansa's Union at the time the student leaves his enrollment material. They will be returned to the basement of Strong Hall when fee cards are picked up.
Erdelatz To Stay At Navy
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.—(UP)
—Coach Eddie Erdelatz announced today he will remain at Navy as football coach and has decided against a move to Texas A & M.
6 Points To Aid Education
Legislature Gets Record $313,200,000 Figure
"My colleagues and I feel certain that our present system of precollege education is wrong," said Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, in a Daily Kansan interview Friday.
He outlined six points "to improve education as a whole and to give the proper background in science."
1. Increase the school year to 11 months.
3. Establish a thorough advisory system for pupils in junior and senior high schools.
2. Change the state law to allow graduates in arts and sciences to teach in public schools.
4. Re-establish incentive in school work.
6. Induce parents and teachers to create an atmosphere conducive to learning in the home as well as in the school.
5. Recognize superior teaching through merit increases.
"Lengthening the school year would encourage more highly qualified teachers through the increase in salary and would enhance the education of the students," said Prof. Burckhalter.
Longer School Year
"European children attend school 11 months out of the year and they are far more advanced than ours in languages, science and mathematics."
Prof. Burckhalter said that the activities of a school of education should be restricted largely to graduate school level.
Knowledge or training is the most important consideration in hiring a college professor, he said.
JOSEPH H. BURCKHALTER
"We are so imbued with the ideals of democracy that we mistakenly want everyone to conform to the same social, economic and intellectual pattern," he said.
"Those who have the abilities should be urged to take basic courses. I would not have a child take shop or even typing if he had the ability to advance in courses such as algebra, biology, English or foreign languages," he said.
"Let courses such as shop and typing be extra-curricular with no credit allowed in them for the student preparing for college."
He pointed out an inconsistency in our school system. Unlike scholastic work, high school sports are competitive and the benchwarmer is made to feel inferior, he said.
"People need nudging in arithmetic as well as in sports. A potential A student in algebra may be satisfied with a C if there is no challenge," he said.
"It is the duty of administrators to find out who the best teachers are. It is better to give merit increases than to give blanket increases." he said.
he added that children depend on their parents to tell them what to do and they don't feel a sense of obligation toward their homework, but instead they put play and television first.
Gov. George Docking today recommended a 5 per cent faculty raise at the state's five colleges.
This was just a part of the record $313,200,000 budget which he laid before the Kansas Legislature today. He said the budget will "provide all of the service that that the people of the state can afford to finance."
He said a "careful review" should be made by the regents to eliminate "inequalities in pay between schools and within schools."
In relation to the faculty raise Gov. Docking said, "I have taken an amount equivalent to an over-all 5 per cent increase in salaries for the fiscal year 1959... and recommended that this amount, which totals $949,252, be appropriated from the general revenue fund to an account of the Board of Regents."
The final total of the proposed budget is $15,700,000 more than Gov. Docking's earlier recommendations. It included, besides the 5 per cent faculty raise, a full-formula state and elementary aid to schools and a record $113,500,000 highway building program.
Changes In State Income Tax
The only new tax sources recommended by the governor were changes in the state income and inheritance tax law to bring in an added $6,245,000 a year.
Gov. Docking's recommendations are sure to draw partisan fire from the Republican-dominated House and Senate, which opened a 30-day budget session in Topeka at noon.
He did not recommend a 1-cent per gallon increase in gasoline taxes. Instead, he suggested cutting the gasoline taxes from five to four cents a gallon and enacting a small ton-mile tax on truckers.
3-Point Revenue Plan
Combine the sales tax and general funds into one.
His over-all revenue plan envisioned a 3-pronged attack on the state's financial deficiency:
Delay distribution of the $12-$500,000 residue for 11 months until May 1, 1959, instead of distributing it June 2. 1958.
Raise $6,245,000 in net taxes by eliminating the federal incomb tax deduction that corporations take on state income returns.
He said he was "led to the conclusion that we should proceed cautiously in expanding state programs and in embarking on new tax programs.
(An editorial, "Lawmakers Face Problems," Page 2.)
Legislature Starts Work
TOPEKA — (UP) — The state House of Representatives and Senate today passed routine resolutions to organize business, then stood recessed until Gov. George Docking delivered his budget message.
In the House, 121 members out of 125-member body showed up for the opening day of the 30-day budget session.
Rep. Ancel Dalton (D-Ft. Scott), injured in a Dec. 26 auto accident, was in Fort Scott hospital and not expected to attend any of the sessions.
The Senate and House both passed 11 resolutions, mainly aimed at such routine matters as appointing the same officers as used in the 1957 session, adopting rules and seating arrangements.
House Democrats scheduled a 7:15 p.m. open caucus.
Need Pirates For Stamp
WASHINGTON—(UP)—Rep. Bar-ratt O'Hara (D-Ill.) suggested today that President Eisenhower's proposed five cent postage stamp for out-of-town letters carry a picture of two pirates. O'Hara favors a three-cent stamp.