Photo by Ray Sellers
Ballets performed on stage of water
Some people get their kicks in unusual ways, but to these six girls this seemingly unusual water formation is no game. They are members of the KU Synchro Club, and they perform periodic water ballet shows at the Robinson Gymnasium pool.
School day proclaimed to stress needed funds
Whether or not Kansas public schools will have enough money to complete next year's school term is the purpose of the March 2 "Save Our School Day," said Melvin Neely, executive secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Association, Wednesday.
"I have no doubt that schools in Kansas will have to shorten their terms next year if more state money is not given to school districts," Neely said.
According to the Foundation Act of 1965, Neely said, that the state should provide a minimum of 40 per cent of the state's education budget.
He said that the 26 million dollars the legislature has allotted for supplemental school aid is totally inadequate and the extra 17 million dollars needed from the state will have to come from an increase in taxes.
"Save our Schools day is not a
Strike days high
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A total of 3.7 million man-days of work were lost through strikes last month, the highest figure for any January since 1946, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
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teacher walkout, boycott or strike," Neely said. There will be no school closing, he said, without the boards of education agreeing that this is the best way to present the problem to the people.
"If any appreciable time is cut from the school day on Save our Schools Monday," Neely said, "teachers will be expected to make it up. An hour or two of classwork can be made up, but the damage that financial starvation of our schools can do to the education of a child cannot be repaired in the future."
Governors' support asked for Nixon welfare program
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon ignored the simmering desegregation issue at the National Governors' Conference Wednesday and asked the governors to help push his welfare program "over the top."
The annual mid-winter conference, intended primarily to press Congress for action on programs of federal aid to the states, faced a concerted effort by several Southern governors to bring the school desegregation issue formally to the conference floor.
Nixon confined his remarks at
a mid-afternoon speech to a plea for governors' support for his welfare programs and antipollution fight.
He said there was "at least a 50 per cent chance" that his welfare proposals, featuring his family assistance plan, would be passed by Congress. He told the states' chief executives that their personal lobbying while here could put the program "over the top."
He warned, however, that his program is limited by budget restrictions and asked them not to
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Nixon also asked their help in rekindling congressional interest in his plan to distribute a portion of federal tax revenues to the states without strings.
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