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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 30, 1957
New Comptroller Tries To Get Payroll Sooner
"We are sending KU payroll reports to Topeka earlier this year in hopes that the payroll will be out sooner," Keith L. Nitcher, comp troeller of the University, said in an interview. Paychecks sometime arrive late because on some months the records reach Topeka of the weekend when the offices are closed. Mr. Nitcher said. It all depends on which day the end of the month falls.
Mr. Nitcher was chief of the accounting control and service section in the State Department of Administration, Topeka, before he came to KU July 1 as comptroller. The position was created after the retirement in June of Karl Klooz, bursar.
Comptroller Keith L. Nitcher
After graduating from Washburn University in 1948, Mr. Nitcher taught at the Clark's Business College in Topeka. In 1951 he became assistant treasurer at Washburn, a position he held for three years. He then worked as a public accountant for an Ottawa firm and received his CPA in 1954, when he joined the Accounts and Reports Division of the Department of Administration.
Mr. Nitcher, whose desk is probably one of the nearest on the campus, said accountants must have a strong power of concentration and must be able to sit for long hours working with figures.
Child Behavior Study Continues
Through the renewal of a third year United States Health grant of $33,800, a study of the everyday behavior of normal children in towns of different sizes will be continued by KU psychologists this year.
Herbert F. Wright, professor of psychology, directs the work which is called the City-Town project. The studies are made in Lawrence, Oskaloosa, McLouth, and Overbrook.
Prof. Wright and his associates carry out their research by interviews with the children, their parents, teachers, and group leaders as well as by observing them in school, church, recreational, and business areas.
The general aims of the project are to develop applicable methods of research in the natural history of human behavior and to describe psychological living conditions and behavior of children in some midwest communities.
Car Accident Costs $275
A KU student and a Lawrence resident were involved in a $275 auto accident at the corner of Sixth and Michigan streets at 7:44 p.m. Saturday.
Police estimated that $250 damage was done to the car driven by Jon J. Hickey, Great Bend freshman, when according to police, he ran into the rear of a car driven by Earl Shutt, 1205 W. Fifth St.
Mr. Shutt's car, police said, had stopped in the inside lane waiting for traffic to clear from the other direction. Hickey, police reported, said he did not see the stopped car in time to stop his car.
Police estimated $25 damage was done to the car driven by Mr. Shutt.
He said changes are being made in the business office, which receives and disburses all the University funds. The changes include an additional room in Strong Hall for the payroll section and moving the accounting office closer to the comptroller's for easier supervision.
The IBM machines of the statistical service will soon be used to prepare monthly financial reports for the University administration, Mr Nitcher said.
An exhibition of 21 paintings by Ward Lockwood, visiting Rose Morgan professor, opened Sunday in the second floor gallery of the Museum of Art.
Painting Exhibit Now In Museum
Mr. Lockwood, who was an art major at the University from 1912-14, is originally from Atchison. He is now a professor of art at the University of California in Berkeley.
"Most of the paintings on display were done in the past year." Mr. Lockwood said. "Although most people call them examples of abstract expressionism, I describe them as an attempt to express my experiences."
Lockwood has maintained a summer home in Ranchos de Taos, N. M., for many years and has been identified with the "Taos Group" of artists. He painted the murals in the United States Post Office in Washington D. C. His paintings hang in several galleries and museums across the country.
The Lockwood exhibition is the first program in the University School of Fine Arts Festival year and marks the opening of the new Music and Dramatic Arts Building. The exhibition will run through Oct. 27.
This Is The Last Day To Pay Fees
During the first 21/2 days of the fee payment period 5,638 students paid their fees. Keith Nitcher, comptroller, said today.
Fee cards must be picked up in the basement of Strong Hall and fees are paid at the business office on the first floor.
Administrative changes by the state government of Kansas during the last four years are published on an organizational chart by the Governmental Research Center in Strong Annex A.
Students who do not pay their fees today will be penalized $2 per day for late payment.
State Government Changes Listed
The state agencies concerned with the management of the penal institutions were reorganized by transferring authority from the Board of Penal Institutions to a single director, a penologist.
Revenue collection was reorganized with the creation of two departments for administration and a quasi-judicial board for tax appeals.
The Water Resources Board was established in 1955 to study the state's problems of water supply.
The Kansas State Historical Society ranks second only to the Library of Congress in its collection of newspapers.
80 Engineers Enroll At K.C.
... Campus Briefs ...
Eighty graduate students are enrolled this year in the Graduate School's evening program of engineering courses offered at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The students, working engineers in the Kansas City area studying for a master of science degree, are taught by five professors of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The program, in operation five years, offers courses in aeronautical, chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. A course in mathematics is taught by Yudell Luke, staff member of the Midwest Research Institute.
Faculty members include E. K. Parks, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, Kenneth H. Lenzen, associate professor of applied mechanics, K.B.Irani, assistant professor of electrical engineering, A.L. Rosen, associate professor of chemical engineering, and Edward J. McBride, professor of mechanical engineering.
Freshman Engineers To Vote Tuesday
Engineering freshmen will elect their representatives to the Engineering Student Council Tuesday. Robert Hagan, Newton, Bob Johnson, Turner, John Durrett, Prairie Village and John Steuri, Great Bend were nominated last week.
Elections will be held during the engineering lecture at 11 a. m. in Fraser Theater, Carlos N. Campuano, Kansas City, M. senior, president of the council, urges all engineering freshmen to attend the lecture and vote even though they are not enrolled in the class.
Geologist On Field Trip
Dr. Ada Swineford, geologist of the State Geological Survey, is collecting rock and mineral specimens on a field trip in northwestern Kansas this week.
The plant of the Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wisc. was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The facade of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is built almost entirely of glass.
First prize winners in design at the Toneka Free Fair are now being shown in new display cases in the south lounge of the Student Union.
Prize Designs Displayed In Union
The display includes pottery, ceramics, and silversmithing work done by KU students last year.
The new wood and glass display cases were delivered to the Union last week.
KU Alumnus Aids Satellite Development
A KU alumnus is playing a key role in the development of earth satellites. Dr. Richard William Porter, who received his B. S. degree in electrical engineering in 1934, is now chairman of the Technical Panel on Earth Satellites.
He has been on the staff of General Electric for 20 years. A native of Salina, Dr. Porter received the KU Distinguished Service Award in 1951.
SU Bookstore Giving Purchase Rebates
Student Union Bookstore rebates for the period 21 beginning July. I total $11,500, according to J. J. Newcomb. bookstore manager.
"Although we will have no special table for rebates now, students can receive the 10 per cent of their cash register tickets for periods 12 through 21 at any time except enrollment." Newcomb said.
Jay Janes To Hold Teas For Women
The Jay James will hold rush teas Tuesday and Wednesday. The girls attending the tea at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union will be from Watkins and Douthart Halls and Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Kappa Alpha sororites.
Delta Gamma, Delta Delta Delta,
Sigma Kappa, and Kappa Alpha
Theta sororities, and upper-class
women in Gertrude-Sellars Pearson
Hall and independent women will
attend the tea at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
in the Pine Room of the Student
Union.
Kansas City, Kan. is the world's largest producer of hog serum.
$150 Scholarship To Student
A scholarship of $150 was presented to Hal T. Hansen, Hutchinson senior, Friday noon at the ninth annual Savings and Loan Institute held in the Student Union.
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