Missouri Valley, Big 8
Banner year predicted
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)— It looks like another banner December-to-march for Midland's folk who live, eat and sleep basketball.
With the bulk of last year's individual headliners returning, any one of five teams could win in either major conference—the Missouri Valley and Big Eight—without raising too many eyebrows.
Big Eight king Kansas bumped off Valley winner Cincinnati in the NCAA Midwest Regional a year ago before losing in two overtimes to eventual NCAA champion Texas Western, 81-80.
BOTH KANSAS and Cincinnati are capable this year but the razor-thin role of favorites go to Westley Unseld-led Louisville in the Valley and last season's Big Eight runnerup Nebraska.
Louisville coach Peek Heckman swears if the 6-foot-8 Unseld isn't a superstar there just aren't any superstars. As a sophomore last season Unseld was second in the nation in rebounding (19.1) and scored at a 19.3 clip.
Nebraska makes up for its lack of size by utilizing the pressing defense and a fast break and Husker coach Joe Cipriano returns 69.2 per cent of the offense that carried him to a 20-5 season a year ago.
Louisville won 16 of 26 games last season and Heckman has four starters returning including two others beside Unseld who averaged better than 10-points a game. He also has three reserves back and will suit up three sophomores who as freshmen averaged better than 20 points.
THE CLOSEST thing to Unseld is Warren Armstrong of Wichita State who at 6-foot-2 may be the best on an inch-per-inch basis. Armstrong hauled down a school record 323 rebounds last season and scored at a 16.5 average. The Shockers, 17-10 last year, also return Jamie Thompson, the No. 2 scorer in the conference with a 22.0 mark.
Cincy, Bradley, St. Louis and Drake are also capable of taking it all but Cincinnati will be pressed to equal its 21-7 record last season.
Coach Tay Baker is counting heavily on playmaker deluxe Dean Foster but he won't have 6-foot-4 Roland West (15.5) until after January. Bradley's hopes ride with 6-foot-6 Joe Allen, an 18.5 scorer, and the key word at St. Louis is agile Eugene Moore, a solid rebounder.
Bob Netolicky, a talenter 6-foot-8 pivot who scored at an 18-point average, leads Drake's hopes of improving on a 13-12 record. Tulsa's efforts will be carried by guard Eldridge Webb who scored at a 17.0 clip before losing scholastic eligibility last season.
NORTH TEXAS State carries a 19-game losing streak into the season but has two of the finest in rebounding stalwart Willie Davis and Rubin Russell, the MVC's leading conference scorer last season when he averaged 22.3 per game.
Cipriano needed only three years at Nebraska to turn the Corrinhuskers from a perennial Big Eight loser into a hustling contender and the Huskers almost hustled Kansas right out of the title last season.
Cipriano's main problem this season is replacing all-league guard Grant Simmons, a real take-charge guy, but he does have seven lettermen ready and a trio of sharpshooters in Nate Branch, Tom Baack and Stuart Lantz.
Kansas lost a bundle in 6-foot-
11 Walt Wesley and all-purpose guard Del Lewis but coach Ted Owens is expected to field another contender. He has four outstanding lettermen, led by guard Jo-Jo White, and an outstanding sophomore crop.
COLORADO'S hopes are bolstered by the return of guard Pat Frink who sat out last season with a lame knee and 6-foot-8 junior Don Smith, last year's sophomore award winner, gives Iowa State one of the best pivots in the conference.
Kansas State, traditionally tough, looks for a better than 14-11 season and coach Tex Winter knows the difference could be if 7-foot Nick Pino is ready to show his stuff.
Don Sidle and Willie Rogers, who together were good for almost 35 points a game, gave Oklahoma the best 1-2 scoring punch in the league last season and both return. Oklahoma State and Missouri are the unpredictables of the Big Eight after dismal 4-21 and 3-21 seasons last year.
First state law manual edited by KU's dean
The first form and practice manual of Kansas law, The Handbook on Kansas Probate Administration, has been published by the Bar Association of the State of Kansas.
James K. Logan, Dean of the Law School at the University of Kansas, served as editor and one of 12 Kansas lawyers and law professors who contributed chapters to the book.
Loose leaf in format for easy updating, the handbook includes forms for nearly all of the standard probate transactions in Kansas. It is intended for use by Kansas lawyers and lawyers who will have reference to Kansas law.
"IN DEALING with the problems of federal and state taxation: income, estate, and inheritance, this book represents something new for Kansas practitioners."
Contributors to the handbook are:
Logan said in the preface.
Verne M. L. Maling, Wichita; Melvin C. Poland, Washburn University, Topeka; Richard A. Barber, Lawrence; Ervin G. Johnston, Kansas City, Kan.; Marvin E. Thompson, Russell; Philip H. Lewis, Topeka.
Leslie T, Tupy, KU; Donald L. Cordes, Wichita; Murray F. Hardesty, Topeka; Donald J. Horttor, Topeka; James K. Logan, KU, and William R. Scott, KU.
Ron Kull, Topeka, the Executive Secretary of the Bar Association, oversaw the project.
Daily Kansan Monday, December 5, 1966
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Dean Albrecht said the 43 eligible departments include nearly all KU's doctoral programs.
Graduate grants awarded to KU
The fellowships from the U.S. Office of Education will be for first-year graduate students in 1967-68 and will be renewable for second and third years of fulltime study.
Sixty-five National Defense Graduate fellowships worth more than $325,000 for each of the next three years have been authorized for use in 43 departments of the University of Kansas, Dean William P. Albrecht of the Graduate School said today.
Last year 60 NDEA fellowships were authorized for the current year and two years ago there were 51.
"We ARE delighted to receive an increase this year as the formula guaranteed only 45 new awards—or 75 per cent of last year's total" Dean Albrecht said. "The Office of Education also has made efforts to provide greater
distribution of its fellowship program, which we feared might reduce the number of new awards here."
Stipends are $2,000 for the first year, $2,000 the second and $2,400 the third, plus as allowance of $400 for each dependent. KU receives institutional funds of $2,550 for each fellow for fees and other costs of instruction. Fellows may also receive summer awards of $400 plus $100 per dependent.
Next year the NDEA fellowship program will be in operation at all three levels with the total program, including dependency allowances, more than $800,000.
The goals of the Title 4 program of the National Defense Education Act are to increase the number of college and university teachers, to increase the capacity of the nation's graduate schools, and to promote a wider geographical distribution of graduate programs for preparing teachers.
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