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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959

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UK Silent About Courtis. Ruling.
Decision May Place Limit
Of $7,200 On Administrators
Spokesmen for the University
have made no
Administration
statement concerning what action
the University will take on last
Friday's Court of Appeals reinter- pretation of the Kentucky Con- stitution.
The court held that the salary
limits for statewide officials shall
be $12,000 and $7,200 for officials
whose powers are less than state- wide. An earlier ruling by the
offi- court allowed
dais to be considered "employees"
and consequently not .bound by
the constitutional salary limits.
Uunder the Pardue ruling, Uni- versity' faculty members were
among those considered to be em- ployees of the state.
Dr. Peterson said some sort of
decision on ' the matter will be
made soon. He said, "The ques- tion of whether or not employees
were to be held to the salary of
officers was debatable, but the

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LYNN SMITH

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JAMES KING

Smith, King To Head

'Carmen' July
Lynn Smith and James King
have been chosen to head the cast
cf ."Carmen," Guignol Theatre's
summer production, to be presented July
Miss Smith, Middlesboro, is a
junior at Converse College in
Spartanburg, S. C, and is enrolled
in the University for the summer.
She is a drama major and has had
various roles in musical comedy.
James King, associate professor
v. u.v, ....
throughout central Kentucky. He
has sunt the leading roles In The
Marriage of Figaro" and "Street
Scenes." This past season he ap- peared In the Guignol Theatre
production of "Cyrano."
Mr. King has assisted with the
of several of the past
Guignol summer productions. He
t iiinjr with thP Cincinnati nnri
Louisville symphonies and has appeared in summer stock in Kansas
and Florida.
The opera will be sung in Eng- :ish and will have dialogue mixed
in with the vocal parts. In addition to the 11 solo parts, a chorus
will sing and dance.
Other members of the cast include: Micaela, Tat Ilerren;
Richard Merrill; Trans-quit- a,
Ann Kelley; Mercedes, Ann
Don Cairo, John
Huddleston;
Kays; El Remedado, Jack Ritter;
Zuniga, Horace Kelley; Morales,
41 Northcut; Guide, Wallace
Ruice and 1'astia, Al Northcut.
Miss Phyllis Jenness and King
will direct the music for the opera.
Wallace Briggs, assistant professor
f f English, will supervise stage direction. Costuming will be by Mrs.
Lclo Robinson, assistant professor
cf English and sets by Archie B.
Rainey. English instructor.
Piano accompaniment will be
provided by Harrylyn Sallis and
Htlen Dingus.
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ruling settled more than $12,000 a year UK Vice
that."
President Frank Peterson said,
In a statement made Monday,
Among these are President
UK President Frank G. Dickey Dickey, who makes $21,000 and Dr.
said:
William R. Williard, Dean of the
Court of Appeals

..We (the administration) have
not. had an opportunity to study
the decision of the Court of Ap- peals and, therefore, cannot make
a statement relative to the full ef- feet that the decision Will have
upon the University.
"There is no doubt in my mind,
however, that if the people of Ken- tUcky permit this Constitutional
provision to remain", education in
the Commonwealth of Kentucky
will have been dor.e Irreparable
harm. At a time when Kentucky
has been making progress In the
advancement of education, this
decision and its import strike a
staggering blow at educational
progress at every level."
There are currently 22 people
on the University payroll earning

Top Opera Stars Perform

cally inclined, the Pioneer Play- - that he has a possessive wife who
house at Danville offers summer will hot let him go.
swck penormances ui oroauway
Tne young. lady played by Step.
shows.
anie Posner discovers the plot
onH ic cri i H oH fntrt morrloffd tivr
KTv u'ubL'd cTrtnur "Kind Sir
will open Thursday. "Kind Sir" Heather Mackenzie and Earl Sen- was made into a motion picture net as a match-makin- g
married
entitled "Indiscreet" starring Cary couple. This romantic comedy
banishes the thought that bache- Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
Elliott Girard plays a clever lors are masters of their fates. .
bachelor who leads a young lady
Curtain time for "Kind Sir"
to fall in love with him, but fends which will run through July 6, is
off marriage by convincing her 8:30 p.m.

operatic bonanza can be
found a scant two hours driving
"me irom ixington in ine ramer
unlikely setting of a zoo.
I 7ort
Via Pin.
At va
clnnatl summer Opera is in its
op.
year the
3th season
era is presenting nine operas fea- turing 21 stars of both the Ameri- can and European opera stage,
An unusual feature of the Cin- clnnatl summer opera is the out- -

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The pavliion seats 3.000 in a
ing which has a weather roof, but
no sides. This outdoor setting:
lends a relaxed, even informal, at- mosphere to the zoo opera.
Tonight's performance, which is
the third production of the season.-starConstantine Ego as the cruel
Baron Scarpia in Puccini's "Tos- ca." Ego came directly to Cincin- nati from La Scala Opera House
in Milan.. Singing the title role
will be Prudencija Bickus.
Puccinni's immortal "Madame
Butterfly" will be presented for
the first time this season. Elizabeth Carron, will sine the role of
Butterfly, a part she first sang
with the New York City Opera in
1957. Singing opposite Miss Carron as Lt. Pihkerton will be tenor
Barry Morrell of the Metropolitan
Opera.
Sunday night another one of the
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operas, Bizet's
world's
"Carmen," will be presented, starring Nell Rankin, the leading
build-directi-

Another faculty member who is
greatly affected by the high
court's ruling is Dr. Frank J.
welch. Dean of the College of
Agriculture. Dr. Welch last fall
declined an .appointment to a
$200oo a year Tennessee Valley
Authoritv directorship to return
to nis
Pst at tne Univer- sity.
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Dr. Humeston
And Shear
To Quit UK
Dr. EdWard J. Humeston',

In Cincinnati Summer Opera
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new medical center, $20,000.

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of the Department of Library Science, and Dr. James A. Shear,,
professor of geography, will take
positions at other colleges next

fall.
Dr. Humeston, who is leaving at
the end of this month, will become
Director of Students at the Drexel
Institute of Technology Library
School, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr ' Shear wm become associate
professor of geography and geology
at the University or Georgia, lie
Iso P,ans to do research wrk
climatology.

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Milan's La Scala.
"Carmen" will be repeated next
Friday night, followed by "Andrea
Chenier" July 4. Sunday a 'special
cast from Milan will
present "The Barber of Seville."
For those who are not opereti- all-Itali-

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Examining a model gasoline engine kit at Monday's Audio-VisuDavis, sponsor of the Caravan; Dr. J. Eduardo Hernandez, Modern Foreign Languages, professor and
Dr. Gordon Godbey, associate professor of education at the University of Delaware. The Caravan is
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