The lights will not be in use until the electric company relocates the telephone poles which obstruct them," Lawrence Hodson, project foreman, said.
TOPEKA—Rep. Bill Brier (R-Overland Park) said yesterday afternoon he expects to "win the battle" to gain House approval of a bill permitting sale of cigarettes on state campuses.
Installation of traffic signals at the corner of 15th and Iowa was completed today, but the lights will not be in operation until Friday.
Brier and Rep. Kenneth Winters (R-Prairie Village) are coauthors of a bill currently on the House calendar directing the State Board of Regents to reverse its March 1964 decision prohibiting sale of cigarettes at state colleges and universities.
Cigarette sale bill predicted to pass
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More traffic signals will be installed at the corner of Harvard and Iowa, five blocks north, beginning next Monday, and will be in operation by the end of next week.
Bier said he expects some opposition to the bill when it reaches the House floor for debate early next week.
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"BUT SINCE THE PURCHASE of cigarettes should be left up to the students and would bring new revenues to the student union funds, I think the bill will pass," Brier said, as he lit a cigarette of his own.
NOT ALL MEMBERS of the Board of Regents favored eliminating cigarette sales, however.
When asked if the Board of Regents was opposing the bill, Max Bickford, Regents executive officer, said the Board "isn't officially lobbying against the bill."
will have to change—either the artist for the worse, or the playwright for the better," said award-winning playwright Edward Albee last night.
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In an Oct. 1965 vote to cancel the March 1964 ruling to abolish cigarette sales, five Regents opposed cigarette sales and three favored reversing the earlier decision and allowing sales.
"The sad truth is that in this great society of ours, the creative artist finds himself at odds with his environment. One or the other
'Artist at odds'
Albee, author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?" was here for the fourth event in the week-long KU Festival of Arts. In his talk last night, he stressed how creative artists are discouraged from being accurate mirrors of society.
Petitions for candidates for spring elections will be available today in the Dean of Students Office. 228 Strong Hall.
Petitions must be completed and returned by Thursday, March 30. Jim Prager, Fullerton, Calif., senior and spokesman for the elections committee, said.
"PLAYWRIGHTS ARE being used as servants by a spoiled public," said Albee. "In Russia, there are appointed men who determine what will be shown. Here, the arts are controlled by the proletariat who are satisfied with the status quo.
Elections for class officers, All Student Council (ASC) seats, and
"You, the audience, can do something about it," he said. College-age people are the only ones who haven't "gone intellectually asleep yet." Much of the public comes to a play expecting to be patted on the back and told that everything is just dandy, he added.
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Politicos' petitions available
Achtenberg said the judges could probably hear all oral arguments from the attorneys in "a couple of hours."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, March 23. 1967
The assistant attorney general defending the Kansas loyalty oath said yesterday he will file a brief by Monday stating the oath is constitutional.
Atty general to defend state oath in U.S. court
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The suit was filed Sept. 26 by Dr. Gerald A. Ehrehrench, an associate professor at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Ehrenreich has refused to sign the oath, which is required of all state employees, claiming it violates rights granted by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
Richard Seaton said he expects a three-judge federal court to rule on the suit after the filing.
The attorney for Ehrenreich, Irving Achtenberg, said he filed a brief Feb. 24 calling the oath unconstitutional. By informal agreement, the defense has 30 days after that date to file a brief, he said.
The judges are: Delmas C. Hill, 10th circuit court of appeals judge, Wichita; Arthur J. Stanley, U.S. district judge, Kansas City; and Wesley Brown, U.S. district judge, Wichita.
Both Seaton and Achtenberg believe the three-judge court will reach a decision without testimony from Ehrenreich or Wescoe.
Seaton said after his brief is filed, the judges will have "to arrange their schedules so they can all be in Toneka for the hearing."
"The parties have agreed to the facts and for this reason I don't think any testimony will be given." Seaton said.
Stanley heads the three-judge federal court. He is currently presiding in a kidnap-rape trial in Kansas City.
Seaton called this interpretation "ridiculous."
In an earlier interview Achtenberg said that under Kansas law a person could be found guilty of a felony for refusing to sign the oath, as well as for swearing to false information in the oath.
No charges have been filed against Ehrenreich for refusing to sign.
Seaton said that if the law is found unconstitutional, his next move would "partly depend on what they said was wrong with it." He said if found unconstitutional, it might be ammended to be made effective.
Named as defendants in the suit are Chancellor Wescoe, Robert Londerholm, Kansas Attorney General, the Kansas Board of Regents and the presidents of Kansas State and Wichita State Universities.
The cost of the suit is being underwritten by the Greater Kansas City and Kansas affiliates of the
American Civil Liberties Union Four attorneys, including Achtenberg, are donating their time to the suit.
Ehrenreich was chairman of the Greater Kansas City affiliate of the union at the time the suit was filed.
Achtenberg said the Kansas attorney general filed a motion asking the federal court to abstain from ruling on the suit, claiming it was a state issue.
The court has decided to rule on its jurisdiction when it convenes to try the suit." Achtenberg said.
Budget to receive final vote today
TOPEKA-KU's fiscal 1968 state fund budget was tentatively approved yesterday afternoon by the Kansas Senate.
Voting as Committee of the Whole, the Senate recommended state appropriations to KU totaling about $16.25 million for the year beginning July 1.
The Senate version of state funds for KU exceeds Gov. Robert Docking's original recommendation by about $176,000 and would increase state aid to KU by 7.5 per cent.
KU'S PORTION of the state college and university appropriations bill met some resistance in floor debate, however.
Referring to a proposed $19,000 appropriation for KU's mortuary science program, Sen. Marvin Cox (R-Kingman), asked, "How long are we going to humor (Chancellor W. Clarke) Wescoe on this? We need that like a hole in the head."
Sen. Glee Smith (R-Larned), President Pro Tem of the Senate, replied that the program wasn't Chancellor Wescoe's pet project nor even desired by him.
"It WAS REQUESTED by the people of Kansas," Sen. Smith said.
Sen. Smith introduced and supported the appropriations bill in floor debate.
Sen. Cox also asked why out-of-state KU graduate students will not pay higher fees than out-of-state undergraduates next year.
"WE'D LIKE TO MINIMIZE intellectual inbreeding by encouraging non-Kansas graduate students to attend; keeping the fees as low as possible will help." Sen. Smith replied.
KU's budget also includes an average six per cent raise in faculty salaries, which Sen. Smith said was based on increased faculty productivity in recent years.
Final vote by the Senate will come today.
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Playwright Edward Albee shows varied expressions during an informal discussion after his speech last night. His lecture was the fourth in the Festival of Arts series.