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University Daily Kansan
Argentineans Visit Lawrence After 11,000 Mile Road Trip
By Larry Ketchum
The truck and its passengers were something out of the ordinary. Carlos Pereyra Iradla, 19, and Jorge Quesada Ocampo, 20, had driven from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Lawrence as part of a tour of the United States. They left Lawrence Saturday.
At 9:30 p.m. last Thursday a light blue pickup truck with an Argentina license arrived at the home of Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology.
The two Argentinean students departed from Buenos Aires Dec. 19, covering about 11,000 miles since then. They plan to drive an additional 5,000 miles in the United States before they return home in late April.
PEREYRA AND QUESADA met Dr. Ireland in Los Angeles and he invited them to stay in his home when they passed through Lawrence.
Pereira is a student at the University of Mar del Plata in agricultural engineering. Quesada studies architecture at the University of La Plate
After observing Lawrence and KU for two days, the pair made the following comments. Pereyra said, "We have seen the prettiest girls here in Lawrence." Quesada liked the way all departments and schools at KU are located almost entirely on one campus.
From Argentina the travelers drove to La Paz, Bolivia, then up over the Andes at altitudes over 15.000 feet. Roads were generally in bad condition, Pereyra said. On some of them there was only room for one vehicle.
After traveling through Peru, the two Argentineans saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time. They would see the Pacific twice more—in Panama and California.
ONE OF the most hazardous parts
State Officials Here To Discuss Car Tax
Questions concerning the state property tax to be levied on KU students with cars in Douglas County for six months of the year will be answered at the All Student Council meeting tomorrow night.
By Rosalie Jenkins
Monday, March 1, 1965
Some officials of the State Property Valuation Department have accepted an invitation extended by Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, and Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore (Vox—men's large residence halls), to attend tomorrow's council meeting.
Miner said all interested students are welcome to attend the meeting at 7 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union and to question the officials on the provisions of the law.
He said either Alvin Jones, director of the State Property Valuation Dept., or Louis Carter, Asst. Director and chief counsel for the department will attend, along with Robert McDowell, asst. legal counsel with the department and former chief justice of the KU student court last year.
BOTH MINER AND Robinson emphasized these officials are willing to clear up all questions on the tax
to clear up an Questions on the tax. Mr. Carter and Mr. Jones told them the personal property tax was not a new law, but it has never been applied to students with cars in a county other than their home county for over six months of the year before.
Robinson said he understood that it was "a new interpretation of an old law" which taxes personal property where it is located the greatest length of time. Previously, student cars have been taxed by home counties in a kind of informal agreement among the counties.
HOWEVER, MINER noted there is a bill (No. 510) presently in the Kansas House of Representatives which would allow in-state students to pay their property tax to the county "in which the owner of the motor vehicle resided on the first day of January."
When asked about the possible double taxation, resulting from such revised procedures, Miner said Jones stated that an in-state student will be taxed twice, but he will not pay twice. He should appeal to the State Tax Appeals Board which will refund his money.
Out of state students will still have to pay a county tax here and in their own county "unless they can receive a waiver from their home county," Robinson said.
Miner said if a student has not been contacted by a deputy assessor for an estimate on his car, he should probably contact the Douglas County assessor's office in Lawrence.
of the journey was the drive from Quito, Ecuador, to Colombia. Bandits prey upon motorists who travel along the highways. Road signs along the way proclaim: "Road Closed—5 p.m. to 6 a.m., Travel At Own Risk." Fortunately, they made it to Colombia without any a.m.
"IT IS UP to the individual to be assessed—failure to do this is a misdemeanor with a $50 fine. He stands the chance of losing the untaxed item in a county auction," Robinson explained.
In order to cross the Panama Canal their 1960 pickup had to be loaded onto a boat. Once across the canal the journey continued through the Central American nations.
On the way through Central America another truck passed the young men. Its wheels threw a rock through the windshield. Pereyra and Quesada drove 1500 miles before the windshield could be replaced in Mexico City. "As a consequence," Pereyra said. "the truck always seemed half full of rain."
AFTER BRIEF visits in Mexico City and Acapulco the truck and the students entered the United States at Nogales, Ariz. From there they drove on to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, and then to Lawrence.
From Lawrence, they resumed their journey toward Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, New York City, Washington, D.C., Miami and New Orleans. At New Orleans they and the truck, which belongs to Pereyra's father, a rancher, will board a ship bound for Buenos Aires.
History Films Give Insight
Films are an integral part of History 131, Recent European History, taught by Professors Charles Sidman and Aldon Bell. First taught last spring, the course offers the student the opportunity to read extensively in books, newspapers and periodicals of the time, and also to see several contemporary films, thus gaining an intimate knowledge of how people saw themselves and what they wrote about themselves.
All interested students and faculty are invited to see the films, shown on the following Tuesday nights at 7:30 in 303 Bailey:
2 March—Earth (USSR).
1 Love (USSR).
9 March - Love of Jeanne Ney
(Germany).
16 March—Mein Kampf (Sweden).
23 March-History of an Unknown Soldier (France); Triumph of the Will (Germany).
30 March—Guernica; Rehearsal for War in Spain; Arms and the League; Squadron 992.
Pantomine Production Features Indian Brave
The initiation of a 12-year-old Indian boy into the tribe is the theme of Joseph Golden's children's play, "Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow," to be presented by the University Children's Theatre this week.
Set against a stark decor featuring trees, teepees and table mountains, Johnny has to steal the rain from the Raingod, fire from the Firegod and earth from the Earthgod, in order to be accepted as a full member of his tribe.
The striking feature of the play is that the whole story is done in pantomime with the aid of a narrator. Percussion and recorded sound effects add to the magic effect of the play along with its simplicity and symbolism.
"THE PLAY WOULD BE a good piece to present at an international conference." Jed Davis, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the Children's Theatre, said.
"Here is an example of a boy who obtains all power from the gods, but who gives it back again so that the whole of mankind can benefit from rain, fire and the earth."
The KU group touring Eastern Europe last year, put on the play at the end of their tour in London, during the International Children's Theatre Convention.
PLAYING JOHNNY MOONBEAM is Steve Grossman, Glencoe, Ill., freshman; the narrator is Burt Eikleberry, Lawrence graduate; the gods are Pat Melody, Miamy, Okla., senior, Kay Habenstein, Columbia, Mo., senior, and Connie Bohann, Leawood junior. The medicine man is Frank Cox. Pleasanton freshman.
After the KU performances, at 4:30 Thursday and Friday, and 2:00 Saturday, the cast will give performances at Salina, Wichita, and Kansas City.
This is the fifth year the KU Children's Theatre has gone on tour.
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THE CLASSICAL FILM SERIES presents
KANAL
1956 (Poland)
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival
Wednesday----7:00 p.m.
Admission 60c
Fraser Theater