Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year. No.96
Tuesday, March 5. 1963
WU Board of Regents Calls Amended Bill Unacceptable
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Wichita University's Board of Regents considers the newly amended Wichita University bill, which may be voted on today in the House Ways and Means Committee, "completely unacceptable."
Wichita Board Chairman Sidney Brick told the committee yesterday that the bill, as amended by the House State Affairs Committee, would probably not be approved by Wichita voters.
"WE BELIEVE the bill should give some direction to the State Regents to keep our school as a university and not as an extension or center." Brick said.
"We feel we are entitled to some direction in the bill. The State Regents adopted the Eurich Report and rejected efforts to reach a settlement
somewhere away from the Eurich Report." Brick told the committee.
In an appraisal of the Wichita side of the controversial bill, Brick said Wichita citizens "tell us not to sell Wichita University down the river."
THE HOUSE STATE Affairs Committee recently amended the Wichita bill by striking out all reference to "university" after the school comes into the system.
Brick said Wichita business leaders had told the nine-man Wichita Regents Board they want a university and nothing less.
However, Brick said that Wichita wanted to become a "medium-scope" university and not one that would have extensive doctoral programs and compete with either the University of Kansas or Kansas State University.
BRICK'S FRANK statements came toward the end of a three-hour hearing which mainly had been taken up with the finances involved in transferring Wichita to state jurisdiction.
"It would lessen the quality of Wichita University to be a branch of any other school." Brick said.
School Appropriations Amount to $28 Million
When asked to point out any amendments in the original, Senate-passed Wichita bill which guarantees Wichita University would remain a university after it came into the system,' Brick said there were none.
"IN MY OPINION." Brick added, "there is a great difference between coming into the system as something . . . or coming in as a bird with its wings clipped and its tail feathers plucked."
TOPEKA—(UPI)—An appropriation bill that would take $28 million from the General Revenue Fund for state colleges and universities was in the Senate today.
Largest among the individual appropriations introduced yesterday was $11.8 million for Kansas State University and $5.8 million for the University of Kansas.
Other appropriations from the General Revenue Fund included Fort Hays State Teachers College, $2.3 million; Kansas State Teachers of Emporia, $3.6 million; Kansas State Teachers of Pittsburg, $3.2 million; Board of Regents, $111,392; School for the Blind, $355,583; and School for the Deaf, $659,907.
In other action yesterday, the Senate gave final approval to a House concurrent resolution to cut off introduction of committee bills Friday.
Excluded from the deadline were committees on assessment and taxation, education, claims and accounts, ways and means and legislative reapportionment.
Among other new bills in the Senate today was one that would appropriate $415,000 for publishing 12,000 sets of Kansas statutory laws.
Tax Cut Claim by GOP Attacked by Democrats
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Democratic Congressional leaders today attacked "wild claims" of Republicans that $10 billion to $15 billion could be cut from President Kennedy's appropriations requests for fiscal 1964.
Skies Clear in West; Warmth Expected
United Press International
Skies had cleared over the western parts of the state early today and sunshine was expected in the east later today.
United Press International Snow and sleet continued to pelt eastern Kansas today but a warming trend was on the way to end the two-day stretch of snow and cold temperatures.
Highs today were predicted to range from 35 to 40, dropping to around 20 north and lower 30's southeast tonight. Milder weather was forecast for tomorrow.
The major storm area was moving slowly out of eastern Kansas after dumping up to five inches of snow overnight. By sunrise today snow cover at Phillipsburg measured five inches; Hill City, Washington and Concordia had two inches; and Russell, Frankfort, and Manhattan each had one inch.
Highs yesterday ranged from 66 at Pittsburgh to 26 at Goodland. Overnight lows were from 11 at Goodland to 34 at Pittsburg.
HOUSE SPEAKER John W. McCormack said the Republican talk of a massive budget cut being possible was motivated by political considerations.
At the White House following their weekly breakfast meeting with the President, the Democratic leaders called Republican claims "illogical." They challenged the GOP to come up with specific budget-cutting recommendations.
Brick said if the Wichita bill failed, the municipality-owned university would continue, but with curtailed enrollments.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said "serious consideration should be given to the Republican claims that they can cut $15 billion."
"Any such cut would impair essential services of the government," the speaker said. "Are they going to cut several billion dollars from defense? That would be against the interest of the country."
What touched off the angry Democratic reaction was a report yesterday by a group of senior Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee saying cuts of $10 billion to $15 billion were possible in the $108 billion appropriations authorization request by Kennedy.
"WHAT ABOUT defense, veterans' interest payments?" Mansfield asked. "We would like the details to see what, if anything, they have in mind. Then we could do with less bombast in this matter."
Asked if the Wichita Regents, as a body, would advise Wichita voters to reject the bill as amended, Brick said he doubted that the Board would take official action along those lines.
"But I personally would advise anyone who asked my opinion to vote it down," he said.
Legislature Rejects Wright's Request
The bill, unless killed in the Ways and Means Committee, will go to the House floor for final arguments and voting.
The areas where these cuts might be made were not spelled out specifically.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas State Teachers Association's request that KSTA Executive Director C. O. Wright be allowed to address a joint House-Senate session was rejected yesterday by legislative leaders.
House Speaker Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan, replied to the KSTA in a letter pointing out that joint sessions are generally reserved for the governor and high-ranking dignitaries.
WRIGHT TOUCHED off a furor in the Legislature when he told an Atlantic City, N.J., convention that Kansas was among the most backward states in the nation in education.
It is understood that the Lieutenant Governor wrote Wright and the KSTA that Wright, as a registered lobbyist, actually was forbidden — subject to fine — from being on either the House or Senate floor.
Neutral Delegates Plan For Progress
GENEVA—(UPI)The eight neutral delegates to the 17-nation disarmament conference met today to decide on a possible new initiative to break the nuclear test ban deadlock.
The meeting was the first the eight delegates have held since Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev served notice last week that the Russians are not interested in making new concessions on the key issue of on-site inspection. $ ^{9} $
THERE WERE reports that the eight might make a fresh attempt to get things moving by introducing a new compromise proposal later this week, but these could not be confirmed.
While the neutrals—Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and the United Arab Republic—have been informally considering suggestions for a compromise, they have assumed a sideline position here the past two weeks, awaiting moves from the nuclear powers.
KHRUSHCHEV SAID last week he would not make any concessions beyond his offer of three annual onsite inspections to police a test ban treaty.
Many of the neutral diplomats have become increasingly concerned at the failure of the United States, Britain and Russia to break their deadlock on the nuclear issue. They fear that East-West contact on the question may end if some worthwhile compromise plan is not devised.
The U.S. delegation has contended that seven inspections are necessary to make a test ban cheat-proof, but says this question is negotiable within the context of an over-all control system. The United States claims the Russians refuse to negotiate and do not want a treaty.
House Bills Sent To Kansas Senate
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas House today passed and sent to the Senate 11 measures, including one which would establish original and exclusive jurisdiction in the State Supreme Court in all cases regarding reapportionment of the Legislature.
The House gave unanimous approval to the bill which would give the state's high court complete jurisdiction in apportionment matters.
In other action the House killed by a vote of 62-58 a bill which would have required the installation of safety seat belts in all new autos sold in Kansas after 1964.
The House gave unanimous approval to a House resolution which earnestly requests the Federal Communications Commission not to make any changes in rules governing daytime radio stations.
Nehru Derides China's Motives
NEW DELHI — (UPI) – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru accused Communist China today of interfering in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan to further “its own expansionist policy.”
Nehru said Pakistan had surrendered more than 13,000 square miles of Kashmir territory to Red China under a boundary agreement signed in Peking last weekend.
He told the Indian parliament that India would "not be bound by the agreement" between Pakistan and the Peking regime.
THE INDIAN government objects to the Pakistani-Chinese agreement because India claims all of Kashmir. Kashmir is now partitioned, with India controlling two-thirds of the territory and Pakistan the other third.
Nehru also sent a protest to Peking in which he accused the Peking regime of "spoiling relations between China and India and between India and Pakistan."
The note said the border agreement exposed "China's insidious policy of poisoning mutual relations between countries of Asia and creating tensions and conflict in this region," the Prime Minister said.
THE PEKING People's Daily, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist party, said Peking takes a position of "non-intervention without partiality" on the Kashmir issue. But it added that "China cannot leave its boundary undefined for long simply because the issue of Kashmir's ownership remains outstanding."
Nehru, referring to part of the note which said Pakistan is "illegally occupying" areas of Kashmir adjoining China, said:
"If Pakistan has no common border with China, and China and Pakistan nevertheless agree to locate and align a boundary in Kashmir, no further proof is needed to show the Chinese objective is to come to terms with Pakistan on the question of ownership of Kashmir and to involve itself in its neighbors' dispute in the interests of its expansionist and chauvinistic policy."
Sen. Carlson to Speak at Leadership Prayer Breakfast Sunday in Union
Senator Frank Carlson will be here Sunday in a role possibly unfamiliar to many Kansans.
He will be the principal speaker at the Midwest Leadership Prayer Breakfast. This breakfast is for student leaders from KU and campuses throughout the area with an expected crowd of 400. It will be at 7:35 a.m. in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
The breakfast is similar to several others already held throughout the nation. Precedent was set by the Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington Feb. 9.
SEN. CARLSON WAS the master of ceremonies of that affair and is president of the International Christian Leadership group.
Similar breakfasts have been held in Arizona, Delaware, Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., Topeka, and one is planned for this spring in Lawrence.
This is the first known breakfast on the collegiate level.
"THE PURPOSE OF THE breakfast is to serve as an occasion for student leaders of the Midwest to
come together to consider the faith that has made our nation great and to encourage spirituality and morality in student life," said Jim Hisky, Lawrence representative of the Campus Crusade for Christ and organizer of the breakfast.
Campus Crusade for Christ and a
Sen. Frank Carlson
special Student Leadership Committee are sponsoring the event.
ALSO APPEARING before student leaders from schools such as Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Kansas State and others in the area will be William R. Bright, international director and founder of the Campus Crusade.
"It is my desire that we return to the Christian faith of our fathers, as many of today's leaders have admonished us to do." Mr. Bright said at a breakfast in Arizona recently.
KU Student Body President Jerry Dickson, Newton senior, and Swede Anderson, 1960 Colorado student body president, will give talks representing the student viewpoint.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will also deliver a short message.
CO-SPONSOR CAMPUS CRUISade is a student movement designed to help present the Christian message to the collegiate world. Beginning in 1951 at UCLA, the movement has spread to leading campuses across America and recently to Korea, Pakistan, Japan and Mexico.
The breakfast is by invitation only and reservations should be returned by tomorrow.