Big 8 city leaders to meet
Bu RUTH ROHRER
A Big Eight city convention will be held in Lawrence today and Saturday with more than 40 business, city government and university leaders discussing mutual interests and common problems of university cities.
It will be the first meeting of an organization of university cities, Dolph Simons Jr., chairman of the conference, said. "This is a working meeting designed solely to be of benefit to the cities involved and the geographic area encompassed by the cities.
"We hope the meeting will be such a success that those attending will want to make this a permanent organization, meeting regularly in various cities and perhaps enlarging the group to include other university cities," he said.
SPEAKERS WILL BE Dr. Charles Kimball, president of Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; Dr. Eugene L. Swearingen who will become president of Tulsa University later this month; and Fran Reich, manager of the Boulder, Colo., Chamber of Commerce.
The topics to be discussed include the responsibilities of a university to its home city and surrounding area, the responsibility of a city to its university, the assets represented by the eight universities, what use is being made of universities in the economic development of the area, and why greater economic growth in university cities has not developed faster.
Display tells of Populists in old letters
The days when the goldenthroated William Jennings Bryan extolled the cause of free silver and Kansas farmers rallied behind a new movement called Populism are the subject of an exhibit by the special collections division of Watson Library.
The exhibit, prepared by the Kansas Collections, began this week and will be shown for approximately a month.
MICHAEL PRODHEAD, curator of the Kansas Collections, said the current display is one of two sponsored by the Kansas division of the special collections this year.
Brodhead said another exhibit will be prepared "sometimes in the next twelve months." The exact nature of the display is not yet known.
The current exhibit is owned by the Watson Library and includes manuscripts, old letters, posters and other printed material related to the Populist movement in Kansas.
THE ITEMS are but a sampling of the collections handled by Brodhead.
They are derived from donations, copies of materials off the press of the state printer (as required by state law), and purchases from antiquarian dealers.
Although most of the library's resources come from donations, some of its materials are the result of direct solicitations.
"WE FIRST get an inkingl that somebody might have something we want," said Brodhead.
Letters or newspaper appeals may follow but Brodhead said most solicitation is through personal rather than public appeal.
The current exhibition "Populism" can be seen from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the exhibit gallery of the department of special collections in Watson's basement.
Following the three major addresses, there will be a discussion period. Various smaller meetings of the mayors, city managers, chamber managers, editors or university representatives will be held Saturday afternoon to discuss specific areas of interest.
THE LAWRENCE CHAMBER OF Commerce is coordinating the conference and has invited mayors, chamber of commerce presidents, city managers, chancellors and newspaper editors and publishers from the university cities.
Ray Wells, Lawrence City Manager, said it is extremely important that the chamber, city, university and newspapers work together because of the complexion of the modern city.
Wells stressed that the city with a university has unique growth problems and is different from the "average American city."
The group, composed of leaders from Boulder, Colo., Columbia, Mo., Norman, Okla., Stillwater, Okla., Ames, Iowa, Lincoln, Neb., Manhattan and Lawrence, will attend the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game Saturday as guests of the KU Athletics Department.
Asst. Defense secretary resigns after six years
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, who never lived down his statement that the government has a "right to lie," is stepping down as the Pentagon's top spokesman.
President Johnson said Thursday he accepted "with regret" Sylvester's resignation. Johnson said he would nominate Sylvester's deputy, Phil G. Goulding, to succeed him as assistant secretary for public affairs, effective Feb. 3.
Sylvester, 65, formerly was a Washington correspondent for the Newark, N.J., News.
During his six years as Defense Department information chief, Sylvester was almost continually at odds with newsmen assigned to the close-mouthed Pentagon.
Daily Kansan Friday, January 6, 1967
The most economical thing about a VW is how long it's economical.
This VW went 67,000 miles. And back.
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Unless you've been marooned on a desert island, you probably know that the Volkswagen has quite a reputation for being cheap to run.
And license plates and insurance generally cost less than for other cars.
As a matter of fact, a lot of VW owners have turned into crashing bores by talking endlessly about it.
Parts don't cost a fortune because so many of them are interchangeable from one year to the next.
It may be boring, but it's true.
Almost everyone gets about 29 miles to a gallon of regular gas. (Some get a bit more or a bit less depending on where and how they drive.)
The secret of more tire wear: more tire.
It doesn't take much oil to keep a Volkswagon going. And tires that go 40,000 miles per set is no special news. (They're built to carry almost twice the weight of the car.)
There aren't a lot of repairs and adjustments to put up with, either.
All in all, a Volkswagen can save you a good $200 a year.
Not bad.
But the thing that really sets the VW apart from other cars is its low depreciation.
The difference is staggering.
The fact is, domestic cars depreciate 2 times as fast as a Volkswagen in only one year.
A one-year-old VW that costs about $1700* now is actually worth more than many year-old domestic cars that originally cost $2,100.
Stick around; it gets worse.
A 5-year-old Volkswagen could be sold for as much as 1900 if it's in reasonably good shape.
But that 5-year-old $1210 car is now worth maybe $400-$500. Maybe.
So it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out what an ugly hole depreciation can put in your pocket.
And one Volkswagen may be all you'll ever have to buy.
Unless vou buv a Volkswaen.
Say you buy a 1966 VW for $1,700.*
And say you save that $200 on running it every year and put it in the bank.
In 5 years or so, you can take that car (if it's in reasonable shape) together with the money you've saved to your local friendly Volkswagen dealer.
Chances are you can drive out with a brand-new VW and not have to add a dime.
One of the nice things about owning it is selling it.
If you don't like that idea, there's another alternative.
Buy a '66 VW and just drive it.
No one will stop you from keeping the same VW for as long as you like. (No one will know the difference anyway; we never change the way it looks.)
So you can just go on saving all that nice money year after year and get rich at our expense.
Maybe the VW really can't make a poor man rich.
but neither can it make a rich man poor.
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