Daily hansan eare, builh, "El Cer- stant nior, more uate Mul- place educ- LAWRENCE, KANSAS 59th Year, No. 76 Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1962 Kennedy Sends Congress $5.7 Billion School Aid Plan WASHINGTON β€” (UPI) President Kennedy today sent Congress an "imperative" request for a $5.7 billion, five-year education program including federal funds for public schools and teachers' salaries. The President, in a 4.000-word special message, drove head-on into powerful congressional opposition by renewing recommendations he made last year which were shelved by the lawmakers. Kennedy's five-year program included $2.1 billion for general aid to education; $747 million to improve the quality of education through special teacher scholarship and training programs; $2.1 billion for higher education, including college construction and scholarships for 200,000 students a year, and $600 million for a vast medical and dental school building program plus scholarships. Early warnings that general aid for public schools and teachers is dead in the House for this session of Congress did not deter Kennedy. "WE CANNOT AFFORD to lose another year in mounting a national effort to eliminate the shortage of classrooms, to make teachers' salaries competitive, and to lift the quality of instruction," the President said. He urgently asked for the same bill passed by the Senate last year but killed in the House Rules Committee: "Legislation providing federal aid for public elementary and secondary classroom construction and teachers' salaries." Calling elementary and secondary schools the foundation of the educational system, the President said there was little value in attempting to improve higher education and increase the supply of scientists and technicians "without a greater effort for excellence at this basic level... "Our crucial needs at this level have intensified since last year," he said, adding also that "our deficiencies have grown more critical." MOST OF HIS REQUESTS for appropriations were in the fiscal 1963 budget submitted last month. Much of the legislation sought by Kennedy still is pending in Congress, left over from last year. Administration officials said only two new bills would be needed, one for the quality improvement plan and the other providing for a five-year, $50.2 million attack on adult illiteracy. Senate supporters of President Kennedy's College Aid Program said they had the votes to defeat an attempt to include public grade and high schools in the bill. A roll call vote was set for early afternoon on an amendment by Sen. Pat McNamara, D-Mich., to add $325 million in aid over two years for elementary and secondary schools. Also pending was an amendment by GOP Sens. Norris Cotton, N. H., and Jack Miller, Iowa, to give states two cents of the eight-cent per pack federal cigarette tax to finance education. The proposal, defeated twice in recent years, would provide an estimated $455 million for the states. DEMOCRATIC LEADER Mike Mansfield told the Senate yesterday that if McNamara's amendment were adopted, the bill would be bottled up in the House and the "end result would be no education legislation." Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., floor manager for the bill, and Chairman Lister Hill, D-Ala., of the Senate Labor Committee, yesterday jointly sponsored an amendment limiting the construction loans to purely secular facilities, thus heading off a fight over religious issues. It was adopted by voice vote. Under their amendment, private and church schools would be eligible for the funds. But they could not be used for sectarian facilities in either private or public colleges. Kennedy's general aid proposal last year foundered in the House Rules Committee, largely over the issue of federal assistance to parochial and private schools. Kennedy did not highlight this sensitive area in today's message except to point out that his 1961 plan represented "the maximum scope permitted by our constitution." THE PRESIDENT'S message contained many other recommendations for federal aid β€” college housing now well on its way through Congress; scholarships for 200,000 talented and needy college students; matching federal grants to states to combat adult illiteracy; financial help for educational television and handicapped children. Chairman Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., of the House Education Committee, has put the subject of general aid aside for this session, saying he will not resurrect it unless the President insists specifically or the committee overrules its chairman. Housing Space May Increase If the $1,950,000 loan KU received from the Housing and Home Agency in Washington D.C. is approved by the Board of Regents at their February 17 meeting, the student capacity of KU dormitories will rise 656. J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories at KU, said today that there are 2528 students presently living in resident halls, and Hashinger Hall, the newest KU dorm now under construction will house 440 students. Along with the loan, $650,000 in university funds will be used to build the dorm in the "Daisy Field" tract south of Hashinger Hall. The structure will be similar to Hashinger, Templin and Lewis dormitories. There will be one lounge, three apartments for supervisory personnel, eight recreation rooms and double study rooms for students. Mr. Wilson said if the loan is approved, bids can be made immediately. Center Established For Geology Study A nationwide study to give new vigor to geological education will begin this month at KU under a $127,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. THE TWO-YEAR study will involve participation of faculty members from undergraduate and graduate-oriented departments in public and private educational institutions. Educators in the physical, natural and behavioral sciences will be consulted in the study. William W. Hambleton, associate professor of geology and associate director of the State Geological Survey, will direct the study, which is a project of the American Geological Institute. "The goal of the project is to generate new ideas and concepts for improvement of the general instruction in the geological sciences to meet the changing patterns of the sciences," Prof. Hambleton said. "Instruction must be flexible enough to provide training in fields that encompass several sciences, for The project's plans include regional conferences with members of other scientific professions such as chemistry, physics, mathematics and behavioral sciences. One such conference may be held at KU, Dr. Hambleton said. KU will provide institutional facilities and advisory services in the conduct of the study. It will be clearing house for a steering committee to consist of scientists from over the United States. example, oceanography, geophysics and ground water hydrology." TEAMS WILL VISIT schools throughout the nation to find new and successful approaches to problems in geological education. "Task forces" will prepare reports on special areas of the problem. As various phases of the study progresses, publications will be issued. Dr. Hambleton will lay groundwork for the project during the spring semester and will continue with the study on a half-time basis with the University. Kilgore to Give White Lecture Bernard Kilgore, president of the Wall Street Journal, will give the 13th annual William Allen White Lecture Friday after receiving the William Allen White Foundation's annual national citation for journalistic merit. The lecture will be at 3 p.m. in Fraser Theater. Since 1945 Mr. Kilgore has expanded the Wall Street Journal into a national newspaper with a circulation exceeding 800,000, an increase of 768,000 during his 17-year tenure as president. Sunday Bernard Kilgore Kansas House Passes 4 Bills In Brief Session TOPEKA β€” (UPI)β€”The Kansas House of Representatives today passed four measures in a brief morning session. Two of the bills were concurrent resolutions asking the Legislative Council to study and evaluate the Kansas Mental Health Program and the use of automatic data processing machines for state agencies. THE MENTAL HEALTH measure passed 108 to 1 on emergency basis, and the data machines plan was approved 101-3. An act providing funds for grants to the American Legion, disabled veterans, Spanish war veterans, veterans of foreign wars, and veterans of World War I, was approved 112-2. A bill for funds for the various educational agencies and offices was passed 115-0. Both the veterans and education bills will now go to Gov. John Anderson for his approval. THE TWO RESOLUTIONS must go to the Senate before being sent to the Governor. In other action the House: - Passed a Senate resolution 81-23 directing the Legislative Council to make a study and recommendations on school district unification for the next session; - Appointed a conference committee when the Senate failed to concur in a House amendment to the bill providing funds for a Civil Rights commission; - Killed a Senate resolution which would have directed county school unification committees to continue work, and asked certain school districts to refrain from issuing bonds or annexing territory; - Passed a fund bill for the state educational agencies; - Passed a measure providing operating funds for state institutions of higher learning. Today is expected to be the last day of the session, which must by law end before midnight Wednesday Weather Fair and continued cold today and tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with slowly rising temperatures. Highs today 25 to 30. Lows tonight near 15. Highs tomorrow 30s. the first issue of the Journal's new national Sunday newspaper, The National Observer, was published from Washington. MR. KILGORE, who joined the Journal staff a month before the stock market crash of October, 1929, became news editor of the Pacific Coast edition of the Journal in 1930. In 1932 he returned to New York and was chief of the Washington Bureau from 1935 to 1941. As managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1941 to 1945, he broadened the paper's appeal through front-page treatment of interpretive economic news and other special features that have developed the modern Journal into a national newspaper. Mr. Kilgore, who has served two terms as treasurer of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, received the Wells Memorial Key, the highest honor conferred by that organization, in 1959. PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS of the William Allen White Foundation's national citation for journalistic merit were Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune; Ben Hibbs, editor of the Saturday Evening Post; Jules Dubcis, Latin American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Hodding Carter, editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss. Other events on the William Allen White Day program will include the Foundation board's 10th annual meeting at 10 a.m. in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room, Flint Hall, and the ninth annual citation of a Kansas editor at a luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Union at 12:30 p.m. Previous recipients of the Foundation's Kansas editor citations were the late Charles M. Harger, Abilene Refector-Chronicle; Will T. Beck, Holton Recorder; Fred Brinkerhoff, Pittsburg Sun and Headlight; Rolla A. Clymer, El Dorado Times; Angelo Scott, Iola Register; Dolph Simmons Sr., Lawrence Journal-World; Oscar S. Stauffer, Topcka Capital-Journal; and Marcellus M. Murdock, Wichita Eagle, in 1961. At 6 p.m., Mr. Kilgore will speak informally and answer questions at the William Allen White Day dinner, sponsored by the student chapters of Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional women's journalism fraternity. New Policy For Mock UN A new policy will allow four major resolutions instead of three in this year's Model U.N. Alan Reed, Leavenworth senior and chairman of the Model U.N. steering committee, said two resolutions will be given to delegates about a month in advance and two during the session. The fourth resolution will give the delegates a chance to become familiar with more issues, Reed said. SEVEN POWER BLOCS WILL meet three times before the session to decide general policies and become acquainted, he said. "Each delegation will have four American students and a foreign student adviser from the country represented," he said. "Since there are not enough foreign students to represent each U.N. country, some delegations will have to write to consults in Washington for information." Any four students may register as a delegation starting Friday through Feb. 14, Reed said.