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The first in a series of six preliminary reports presented to the Lawrence Citizen's Advisory Committee Tuesday should give the members plenty to talk about during the interim months before the second report is presented.
The preliminary report, "Economic Base, Population and Land Use," was prepared by Harland Bartholomew and Associates of St. Louis, Mo. Among other topics, the report visualizes the Lawrence of 1985 as larger by 40,000 persons and 2,300 acres.
BUT, BEFORE the 100-member committee becomes too involved with future plans, it might first examine Lawrence's existing fire protection and police capabilities.
City Fire, Police Short on Facilities
FINISHING TOUCHES—A workman uses an automatic troweler to condition the cement on the first floor of the new Lambda Chi Alpha house at 19th and Iowa.
Recent interviews with key city officials have indicated that more fire and police personnel is needed. This is not a problem unique to Lawrence, but it is one the city must try to solve.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Lawrence police personnel, including one policewoman, totals 27
Thursday, May 23, 1963
This figure includes only four traffic officers. The four officers split the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shifts. Two additional patrolmen also work as traffic officers during the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift.
During the day, two cars and one motorcycle unit handle traffic matters for this community of 35,000.
WILLIAM COX, chief of police, says there is a critical need for additional men in his department. He said plans include the addition of two traffic officers to the department by January, 1964.
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"We don't have a major crime rate here," Horn said. "But if a patrol car is called off for an accident, and then somebody else has an accident, it's an irritating delay for somebody."
Lawrence has two fire stations. They are separated by about 11 blocks. One is located in the heart of the business district at 7th street and Vermont. The other station borders the business area at 18th street and Massachusetts.
Harold Horn, city manager, said a third fire station is needed for adequate protection of areas that are not centrally located.
HORN SAID TAXES would probably have to be raised to provide additional fire and police employees. No mention of revenue was made in the preliminary report prepared by the St. Louis city planning firm.
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Research work already has begun on the project, but details will not be released until NASA formally approves the $35,000 grant, said B. G. Barr, acting director of the Center for Research in Engineering Science.
(The Center is a University research facility located west of Iowa street. Faculty members who staff the center teach light loads, and are given the remainder of their time to devote to research.)
NASA has given tentative approval of a direct grant that will turn one of the 11 into a major project.
NASA Doubles Grant For Research at KU
Skies will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with possible light rain or drizzle. Warmer temperatures are expected throughout the state for tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight will be 45 to 50 with a high of 70 tomorrow.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will double its support of research related to space science and technology at KU under a new $150,000 contract.
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Kenneth C. Deemer, professor of engineering and acting chairman of KU's committee on space science and technology, said the new contract from NASA, which supplements last year's original 3-year, $100,000 award, will provide $100,000 in 1963-64 and at least $100,000 over the following two years.
KU officials hope that the support level for those two years will be increased to or enlarged over the 1963-64 mark.
"THE $50.00 'SEED' money NASA provided for the current year has supired 16 space related projects." Prof. Deemer said. "Eleven of the 16 projects will result in applications for separate funding from NASA this year and three others will probably reach that stage in 1964."
"NASA, less than a year after its first commitment is doubling the amount of 'seed' money for stimulating the interest of scientists in space related research," Prof. Deemer said.
THE INTERDISPLINARY study of space problems has been emphasized at KU. Both Paul G. Roofe, an anatomist, and Yun-Sheng Yu, an engineer, are investigating circulatory problems — one the distribution of blood under various gravitational forces, the other the mechanics of blood flow. Prof. Yu is cooperating closely with researchers in Kansas City, Prof. Deemer said.
NASA officials often refer to the contract placed at KU last year as the "Kansas type grant" and have used it as a pattern for contracts with several other universities. The details of the then unique arrangement evolved from conversations in Washington among Kansas professors and NASA administrators.
THE FEATURE is that NASA provides a lump sum which the University committee allocates
among proposals submitted by faculty. Funded over a 3-year period, the contract calls for support at a rate declining each year.
At KU NASA will provide at least $100,000 for 1963-64, $66,700 for 1964-65, and $33,300 for 1965-65.
The Kansas type grant permits NASA to "phase out" a contract without a sudden, complete halt of all studies.
Or, in the case of the enlarged contract with KU, NASA can easily expand support.
The NASA contract at KU is administered by an executive committee of Dr. John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, chairman; Dr. Deemer, head of mechanics and aerospace engineering; Dr. William J. Argersinger, associate dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. David Paretsky, head of the bacteriology department.
New Atomic Strike Force for NATO
OTTAWA — (UPI) — A "new look" NATO nuclear striking force composed of U.S. and English bombers and submarines was created yesterday by the 15 Western allies.
The massive power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, (SAC), which comprises 95 per cent of all Western nuclear might, is not included.
THE "NEW LOOK" strike force agreement, in addition to putting more might at the command of NA-TO, commits the United States to giving the Allies a greater voice in strategy.
Eight other NATO powers have agreed to arm their warplanes with U.S. missiles in event of war. They are: Canada, West Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
The French, who oppose any broad NATO nuclear "integration" and are determined to build their own atomic striking force, agreed to
commit to the new command only the two fighter-bomber squadrons they have based in Germany.
THE NATO foreign and defense ministers planned a far-ranging assessment today of the cold war balance.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk planned to give the ministerial council a broad review of the international political situation in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, with particular attention to possible effects of the Sino-Soviet dispute.
OTHER FOREIGN ministers of the 15-nation alliance, now in the second day of their three-day spring council meeting, were scheduled to follow with their analyses of particular peril points in the East-West conflict.
The dissussion was expected to cover the spectrum of international trouble spots, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Berlin.
Pritchard Stirs Students. Bankers. FBI
By Fred Zimmerman
Leland J. Pritchard has the controversial notion that one of a professor's duties is to give students more than a lump of undigested facts.
He does give them factual material, and in a greater amount than most ever manage to assimilate in a semester.
BUT TAKING ONE of his economic courses also means being exposed to opinions which have drawn the unfavorable attention, at various times, of an F.B.I. agent, the Kansas Bankers Association, and KU's Young Americans for Freedom.
Local insurance agents, furthermore, sometimes have the feeling that business would be a little better in Lawrence if someone other than Fritchard were teaching a course called Personal Finance.
Possibly in deference to those who have criticized him for expressing opinions in class, he occasionally stops in the middle of a Money and Banking lecture to remind students:
"WHAT YOU'RE hearing is subversive, you know."
His students (most of them) laugh at that, and then he flashes an appropriately subversive grin. But in private conversation he
makes it clear he is quite serious about his approach to teaching.
"It's a professor's duty to tell students what he thinks," Pritchard declares.
MORE SPECIFICALLY, he saves one of the things he tries to do as a teacher is to "imbue my students with the knowledge that since economic systems are merely means to ends, there is no economic system worth dying for."
PRITCHARD'S iconoclasm amounts to more than idle philosophizing. For example, he can fill a blackboard with equations he has recently developed to prove that the banking system is reducing its profits by accepting savings deposits.
"I try to reduce the fanaticism of people. I try to inject some reason. It's pointless to surround an economic system with all sorts of religious fetishes.
"I want to make students see that there are no absolutes in economics, that economics and societies are constantly evolving."
It seems to bother him little, if at all, that virtually all bankers disagree with his theory, as evidenced by the recent series of increases in the interest rate banks pay to savers.
Bankers, he casually explains,
simply don't understand the implications of accepting savings deposits. He adds that partly because of an ingrained suspicion in America of university "theorists," it usually takes a few years for an academic discovery to filter down to "practical" men.
PRITCHARD concedes, however, that even very few economists yet agree with his analysis of the effects of savings deposits; but he is convinced his ideas are slowly gaining acceptance among his colleagues.
Meanwhile, as he continues to argue his theory at meetings of economists and in articles in technical journals, he requires his students to answer examination questions on the subject as though there were no question, for example, that banks, in accepting time deposits, are "custodians of stagnant money," and that the growth of saving and loan associations does not adversely affect the
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size and profits of the banking system.
HE DOES, of course, give his Money and Banking students ample class time to attack his thesis. But they have either been cowed, confused, or convinced—for their questions sound less like attacks than like attempts to make sure they have the essentials straight for the next examination.
Pritchard's ideas about savings deposits prompted angry letters a few years ago from the Kansas Bankers Association to Franklin D. Murphy, former KU chancellor. The letters not-too-subtly raised the question of whether Pritchard should be allowed to remain on the faculty. But Murphy flatly defended Pritchard.
SINCE THEN, animosities have apparently subsided enough so that he can save with a smile:
At that time some of Pritchard's students tried to arrange a debate between him and a representative of the Bankers Association, but Pritchard says no one would debate him on the subject.
Fritchard appears to have sufficient qualifications to justify his advancing unconventional economic theories.
"I regard the bankers of Lawrence as the friendliest bunch of bankers of any town I've ever lived in."
He has taught at KU since 1942, and was chairman of the economics department from 1955 until last year. In 1958 he published an 800-page Money and Banking textbook which, until it sold out, was used by several leading schools, including the University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming, New York University, and Johns Hopkins University. (He is planning to spend much of the summer revising the book.)
FURTIER, AS part of his immaculate dress, Pitrichard nearly always wears the same tie clasp; a Phi Beta Kappa kev.
On the mundane level of money-making, his apparent success tends to give a ring of authority to his lectures in Personal Finance.
Pritchard spends the summers at his cottage on the shore of Shadow Mountain Lake in Colorado. He does not say what his income amounts to from the sale of his book or from his portfolio of stocks, but there are indications it is considerable.
"TYE NOT BORROWED a dollar since leaving the University of Chicago in 1933," he says. "I believe in going into debt only if you can make money at it. But I've never had enough confidence
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