Democrat Hopefuls For Governorship Explain State Needs
By Lee Stone
Four democratic candidates for governor of Kansas asked for the support of the KU Young Democrats Club last night.
The KU club, which is the largest in the state, had asked the candidates to come here and explain their views on state politics.
The four candidates are George Hart, Wichita; Jules Doty, Ottawa; J. Donald Coffin, Council Grove; and Joseph Henkle, Great Bend.
Jules Doty, a practicing Ottawa attorney, is considered by many Democrats to be a leading contender for the Democratic nomination.
Doty, who favors "liquor-by-the-drink," said, "buy a drink, not a bottle." A ten per cent tax on each drink sold would provide an estimated six million dollars in revenue for Kansas schools, he continued.
DOTY CLAIMS THE SUPPORT of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce, Associated Industries, and the tourist industry in Kansas.
Doty said he was in Wichita last week, where he gained entrance to a "private club" of which he was not a member. This club "filled up with University of Wichita students, and no one asked how old they were, either," he said.
In Kansas "there are 1500 bars where they are serving liquor by the drink now," the candidate said. "If liquor by the drink were legalized, these places could be regulated to insure that reputable people run them," Doty said.
GEORGE HART, who is known among Democrats as one of the hardest campaigners in the party, said the issues in the race for governor would be the Sunday closing law, a minimum wage and hour law, taxes, and education. Hart said he had a plan for raising taxes in Kansas, but declined to say what it was.
"If I tell it now, the other candidates will jump up and say 'Me too,'" Hart said. I am not going to tell what it is until I am nominated."
In an interview before the YD's meeting, Hart discussed paramutual wagering at length. It may, therefore, be Hart's plan to offer legislation, if elected, which would introduce para-mutual wagering in Kansas.
"Liquor-by-the-drink" would bring "gangsters and the syndicate into Kansas," Hart said.
Hart, state treasurer during the George Docking administration, said, "I went into the state treasury broke, and I came out broke, and that's a good recommendation."
J. DONALD COFFIN, proprietor of the Council Grove Telephone Company, promised a "grassroots campaign." His program for Kansas includes sixteen issues. Among them are the abolition of the state income tax, placing a two per cent tax on the premiums of Kansas insurance companies and holding foreign corporations liable for violations of Kansas law.
Coffin would also seek legislation that would allow the attorney general to prosecute violations of the code of ethics of the Kansas Bar Association.
During the last election, Coffin ran for lieutenant governor. He was the first in 1964 to announce his candidacy for governor of the state. Coffin is a KU graduate with a degree in law from Washburn University.
JOSEPH HENKLE, who was lieutenant governor during the Docking administration, promised that he would raise taxes only as a last resort. He would provide funds for education by more economical government in Kansas. In 1957 and 1958, a study was made of measures to make Kansas state government more economical, the Great Bend candidate said. "Not a one has been put into effect," he added.
Henkle said he favors a tax write-off for banks on loans made to new Kansas industries. This, Henkle holds, would encourage industrial development in Kansas.
"I am not for liquor-by-the-drink," Henkle said. It would require at least two and one-half years to make such a measure constitutional: Kansas needs revenue immediately, he said.
Although Henkle does not have a college degree, he said he went to junior college. "I've had more correspondence courses in my life than you can shake a stick at," he said.
TWO OTHER DEMOCRAT HOPEFULS were not present at the Young Democrats meeting. One, a leading candidate, Harry Wiles, of St. John, is serving on the Kansas Corporation Commission. The other, Ewell Stewart, Fort Scott, has previously been a candidate for governor running on a prohibition platform. Stewart was not available for comment.
Wiles, in a Topeka interview, said he was campaigning for a school foundation program to solve Kansas' problems in education finance. His goals, if he becomes governor, he says, "are identical to the stated aims of the State Chamber of Commerce."
Wednesday, April 29, 1964
Wiles, a KU graduate, received a degree in business in 1938 and a degree in law in 1941. The hurdle record he set while on the KU track team stood for 22 years.
WILES SUPPORTS a school foundation program, but one which is "realistic and not a compromised conglomeration."
Dailu hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 129
ASC Discusses Parking; Elects Miner Chairman
By Gary Noland
A grumbling, dissatisfied All Student Council last night voted unanimously to have a special session to have vice-chancellor Keith Lawton answer questions concerning the recent hike in parking permit fees and increased parking restrictions.
In a letter to the council, Lawton, vice-chancellor for operations, said he was unable to accept an invitation to last night's session because he was out of town.
Instead, Jay Strayer, Shawnee Mission senior and chairman of the traffic and safety committee, explained the reasons behind the parking permit increases and parking restrictions, but failed to satisfy council members who wished a personal audience with Lawton.
Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, said, "The fee hike is highly discriminatory because the people that will pay for this are going to be the people in the residence halls." (Students who live in the large residence halls must have parking permits to park in the halls' parking lots.)
The revenue from the $6 hike in parking permit fees will be used to hire eight security officers and increase facilities for more strict enforcement of traffic regulations, Strayer explained.
IN CALLING FOR a special session for Tuesday Cline said "the nationale behind the situation is not sound."
"They say that professors and others doing night work need parking privileges while the students pay for this at the tune of $10 a year—to hire more police to give students more tickets," Cline said, describing it as a "vicious circle."
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the council passed a resolution to send letters to Kansas congressmen thanking them for supporting the civil rights bill passed by the House of Representatives, and also urging Kansas senators, Frank Carlson and James B. Pearson, to support cloture on the civil rights debate.
Bill Panning, Ellinwood junior, argued that there may be many KU students who oppose the civil rights bill and would not support such a letter. The ASC should not send the letter as though it is representative of the student body, he said.
"I HAVE NO OBJECTION to sending letters as individuals, but as the ASC, we represent the opinion of the student body.
"And if we are to represent the opinion of the students, we must know what the students feel about it (civil rights bill)." Panning said.
Panning said he would not support the letter and moved that it be amended to read "signed by those members of the council who wish to do so."
His amendment was ruled invalid because the precedent had been established that all letters are signed "All Student Council"
even though some vote against it.
IN OTHER ACTION, the council elected Mike Miner, Lawrence junior, as ASC chairman. Miner has served on the ASC for three years, and has served on all but one of the ASC's committees.
Other officers elected were: Gary Walker, Wichita sophomore, vice-chairman; Ray Meyers, Dodge City senior, treasurer; and Sandee Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., senior, secretary.
Of the three UP bills that were up before the council for a second time, two were defeated and the other tabled.
The bill to establish a student-teacher evaluation committee was defeated 21-1 after Ray Edwards, Bethesda, Md., junior, suggested that this program be handled by the student advisory board.
THE BILL TO establish a food committee was defeated by voice vote when council members explained that residence hall dietitians and the Association of University Residence Halls recommended that this problem be left to individual groups.
A bill to establish a student employment committee was tabled until further investigation could determine its feasibility.
In a report to the council, Chuck Portwood, Shawnee Mission senior and outgoing ASC treasurer, said the council may not go in the red this year, but he recommended that the council appropriate a miscellaneous fund next year for unexpected expenses.
AUFS Speaker
Guinea Freedom Examined
By Tom Moore
The proliferation of bureaucracy in French West Africa is mainly due to the influence and action of the French, according to Victor D. Du Bois.
Du Bois, a representative of the American Universities Field Staff, lectured yesterday in a Political Science 110 class where he talked on "Guinea: The Pilot State."
Du Bois said Guinea, which is located on the west coast of Africa, has been recovering from the French pull out in December of 1958. The French pulled out when the natives of Guinea voted to have independence when offered by French President Charles de Gaulle in early 1958.
DU BOIS SAID "De Gaulle removed almost all the French government administrators from French Guinea in hopes that it would collapse without French guidance."
When all the French administrators and French Civil service workers left, the country was left no more than a handful of Africans to run the suddenly independent country.
When French Guinea (the French was dropped when the country became independent) voted to be independent, De Gaulle promised that all French personnel would be removed within two months of the day of Guinea's independence.
True to their word, Du Bois said, the French were out of Guinea by December of 1958, along with the destruction of much French property by Frenchmen.
"THEY DROVE government cars into the sea, burned public records, and tore out the plumbing in their government apartments," Du Bois said.
The first president of Guinea, Sékou Toure', quickly filled administration and civil service positions with African (Guinea) natives who
In all of Guinea at the time, there were about 13 lawyers who were quickly incorporated into positions of leadership in the government.
showed the slightest possibility of being able to manipulate a post; this went all the way from Foreign Minister to the typists.
With such a situation as having to place untrained natives in positions, Guinea acquired a problem that has become common in many parts of Africa.
THAT PROBLEM, Du Bois said, is that many of the natives began practicing extreme nepotism.
He said this was result of the French influence since nepotism is common in French government, and the old triple law of the man of means in a family or clan is obligated by tradition to support those members of the family which cannot support themselves.
"Since a position of power in the government allowed for such excessive nepotism (hiring of members of one's family), the bureaucracy of Guinea increased at a fantastic rate." he said.
Due to lack of educated leaders, Guinea is a one party country which has control over the press. The press in Guinea enjoys a monopoly and do so by staying in favor with the party in power.
AS AN EXAMPLE of some of the extravagance of some of the former West African republics, he cited a case of a former African colony borrowing several million dollars
Weather
The weather will remain generally fair through Thursday, according to the weather bureau. Winds will be 10 to 20 miles per hour tonight, becoming moderate by tomorrow. Low temperature tonight will be near 45, high tomorrow will be in the 70's.
(the equivalent in French francs) to build the presidential palace in a country which did not have a hospital.
Another African republic spent about $18 million on the president's palace when the budget for the country for that year was only about $25 million, but Du Bois said they were in a hurry to get the palace built.
Much to De Gaulle's disappointment, Du Bois said, Guinea did not collapse through lack of administrators, but the uneducated and unskilled Africans slowed the economy of Guinea greatly, although not to the point of collapse.
In the past six years, he said, the public has become aware of the corruption in the government and the president has taken several steps to slow down the drain. "This drain in some of the republics accounts is for as much as 60 per cent of national budget; most of which goes to government family employees who sit around offices doing nothing to earn their wages."
THE PRESIDENTS of African Republics have given talks about the terrible corruption in government that they are part of, but only until recently have the officials become alarmed as to the growing dissent of the populations of these republics.
Some of the presidents have taken steps of reducing the number of ministers, reduce the number of parliamentarians, and cutting down on the privileges of government officials.
Some of the privileges, aside from a general government pay of $100 per week for ministers, are a paid for apartment, paid for trips (as many as 20 trips to France per year by ministers is not uncommon), and a free hand as to who and how many employees ministers may have, Du Bois said.