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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No. 80
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, February 16, 1967
Board of Regents
KU looks good
TOPEKA—The Kansas Board of Regents today approved a $15,-000 recreation area for Joseph R. Pearson Hall and a $5 per day increase for services to patients at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
The Medical Center increases will be effective March 1 and were necessary to meet increased salary requirements for nurses and technicians, according to Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor in charge of finance.
In addition, the Regents approved $20,000 in research facility expenditures. This figure is to include $7,000 for laboratory facilities in the Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory being made ready for Regents professor Takeru Higuchi.
A request for approximately $63,000 in continued maintenance funds for New Fraser Hall and the Botany Research Laboratory was also approved by the Regents.
This recommendation will be filed with the Kansas Legislature's Joint Ways and Means Committee, which is now considering KU's proposed budget.
Chancellor Wescoe recommended and the Regents approved construction of a Pediatrics addition to the library at the KU Medical Center. The proposal for $72,000 will be submitted to the legislature for final authorization.
The Regents authorized KU to apply for federal grants which will require the state of Kansas to match funds allotted by the federal government by a one-third ratio.
"People have been wondering why KU hasn't applied for any of these grants," Chancellor Wescoe said.
Should the research grants be given, KU must ask the Kansas legislature for matching funds.
"This is a critical matter for the betterment of the University." Chancellor Wescoe said. "It would be a feather in KU's cap to receive the grants and to establish the research facilities which they would make possible." he said.
The Regents also approved a resolution introduced by Chancellor Wescoe which gives the Board of Regents the power to reclassify administrative and research personnel as non-civil service employees.
Chancellor Wescoe said, "This will give the University greater salary flexibility and administrative depth."
Crossing waits on supplies
There won't be a traffic light at the 15th and Iowa intersection for a good while yet.
George Williams, director of public works, told the Daily Kansan last Wednesday he thought it would take only a few days to get the signal in operation once the four 25-foot supporting poles and two 20-foot crossarms arrived from Newark.
The final necessary parts for the signal were shipped from Newark, N.J., Feb. 9, by truck. However, workmen estimate it will be at least five weeks before the signal is operating.
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BUT LAWRENCE HODSON, foreman of the crew installing the controls said yesterday. "Even if the weather stays good and the poles come in tomorrow, it would take us about a month just to get the foundations for the poles laid and get the poles up."
DELAYS HAVE PLAGUED the project since the city commission approved the light and instructed Williams to order the materials. Williams said the parts have been coming in periodically piece by piece since then.
When the signal was approved early last fall, it was expected to be up within 10 weeks.
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Docking meets two governors
TOPEKA. — (UPI)—Gov. Robert B. Docking today announced a meeting this weekend with Oklahoma Gov. Dewey Bartlett, to be followed by a meeting Tuesday with Missouri Gov. Warren Hearnes.
Docking said the meetings would involve turnpikes "and other problems."
One of the Missouri problems specifically mentioned was air pollution in the Kansas City area.
DOCKING'S OFFICE spoke with Bartlett's office in Oklahoma City this weekend.
The time and place are being kept secret at the request of Bartlett's office. Docking said a
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state on the meeting would be issued Monday.
Bartlett requested the closed meeting because of pending legislation in the Oklahoma legislature over turnpikes.
But the meeting will probably involve a hookup of a proposed turnpike from Wichita to Tulsa.
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The Kansas legislature is studying three proposed turn-pikes. They would link Kansas City, with Galena; Wichita with Pittsburg, and Wichita with Hays.
Council head is speaker at Greek dinner
Stanley Learned, chairman of the Council for Progress, will be the guest speaker at the annual Greek Week banquet April 25. Jim Renier, Overland Park junior and chairman of Greek Week, announced yesterday.
Learned is currently national president of the KU Alumni Association, and president of the Phillips Petroleum Company. Learned Hall building was named in his honor last year.
Plans approved for new building
Bids for the new Experimental Biology and Human Development building at the University of Kansas are expected to be taken March 16, vice chancellor for operations Keith Lawton announced today, as the Board of Regents approved final plans for the building in Topeka.
The building will be constructed east of Summerfield Hall and south of Malott Hall, facing Sunnyside Avenue, on a site previously occupied by tennis courts and a World War II surplus frame structure used as a gymnasium annex. The eight-story structure with a two-story Child Research project wing will house the departments of comparative biochemistry and physiology, microbiology and family life and human development. Completion is expected in about 18 months.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology now is housed in Haworth Hall, scheduled for removal to make way for the second phase of the new Humanities building, whose first phase will be built on the site of old Robinson Gymnasium. Microbiology presently is in Snow Hall; its Snow Hall space will be divided among other life sciences now in the building, which need room for expansion. Family life and human development, one of the departments moved out of old Fraser Hall, now is in temporary quarters in the basement of Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The new building, designed by James C. Canole, state architect, and associate architects Peters,
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Construction will begin soon on the $3,549,000 Experimental Biology and Human Development building, which will be located just east of Summerfield Hall and south of Malott Hill, facing Sunnyside Avenue. Completion is expected in about 18 months.