The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • Page 26

26 THE KENTUCKY ADVOCATE. Danville. Kentucky. Sunday. November 15.

1981 Thomas Spragens recalls his stewardship of Centre College will stay in Danville, living on on West Lexington Avenue He feels the college is losing "something special" when he moves out of Craik House his wife. Catharine, an Oxford, native "She has a natural social instinct and has been a splendid hostess," says Spragens. who met Catharine in Washington in the 1940s. "She's an excellent meal planner and has compiled a remarkable collection of recipes She's a wonderful cook, a talent she developed after she left home where there was a live-in cook "She's played a large role in fostering good will on campus and with the college's many constituencies." he adds. "She's also been an excellent wife, homemaker and mother to our two sons and daughter roles she has chosn.JiuLshe' her own person and she will not hesitate to point out my male chauvinistic tendencies With Catharine as his "partner." Spragens believes "a lot of good things have happened in the last 24 years I'm proud of the administration and the faculty, staff, alumni and friends that have supported it." says Spragens.

who has relied on thai support instead of a contract "Tom has been the outstanding president in Centre's history." says long time board member Pierce Lively "He has built facilities and a student body and faculty of the highest quality Not a bad compliment for a man who once turned his back on Centre for a "big time school." Herb Brock Staff writer student aid each year, half of which comes from state and federal sources." The college does not offer athletic scholarships, although many athletes receive student aid of some kind, he says "Less than one percent of our budget about S70.000 goes to We have a commitment to sports. Our alumni wants us to win in our league. But they also want sports to be subordinate to aoademics." One of the college's more prominent "scholar-athletes" in recent years was Ray Burse, a 1973 graduate who won a Rhodes scholarship. Burse, now a Louisville attorney serving on the Council on Higher Education, recalls Spragens as being "accessible, having an open door policy" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "When I was visiting Centre during my senior year in high school.

I remember walking out of the gym and being introduced to Spragens," Burse says. "He was the only college president I met during my visits that year, and that impressed me." Next year, it will be Richard Morrill's turn to greet prospective students With a dwindling enrollment, Morrill will have his work cut out for him. Says Spragens: "It will be a period of transition from an era of growth in higher education to one of decline because of high costs, low numbers of 18-year-olds and a tighter The endowment should be increasing by $2 million a year over the next decade, but the college must reinforce its fund-raising efforts." Spragens, the "cheerleader," will be around to help. He administration But he decided against leaving after Chauncey Newlin donated $1 million for the library fund, "The faculty and I have generally shared our dif ferences in good spirit, devoid of divisions." he say "Our relationship has been marked by considerable comity -that's c-o-m i friendship, not comedy That "comity" was reflected a few years ago when Mr and Mrs. Spragens started a tradition of inviting faculty to their residence.

Craik House, for Christmas carols The caroling broke a week of tension over a faculty member's grievance, he says Spragens can measure the effectiveness of his administration by most any yardstick fatter endow ments, faculty salaries that have quadrupled, modern facilities But it's the student body which has totaled nearly 5.000 since 1957 that's "the most important barometer of a college's success Centre has produced three of Kentucky's four Rhodes scholars in the last 15 years Kilty percent of the college graduates do post graduate work College board scores of entering freshmen are fio points above the national norm, compared with Ml points Mow the norm in 1957 He can go on and on Centre students generally not only ha.ye higher aptitudes, they also have bigger bank accounts than they did 24 years ago The bill for one year at Centre, tuition and all! was $1 .120 in 1957 now it's nearly ST.inmi "Fifty percent of our students receive financial aid." Spragens says "The college administers Si million in i( (Hit I nurd from paRe 19' Sprat-n says his relationship with (acuity members also has leen good, although he admits he has not spent as much time with them in the last ncseral years since Keckard Imcame dean of college and provost Says one professor who asked not to he identified "We don't see a lot of him He devotes most of his time to fund-raising while Dean Reckard takes care of the day-to-day operations of the school But in earlier years, he built up the faculty, increased salaries and helped in developing innovative curriculum Most faculty members have post graduate degrees, many with doctorates Sprains, whose only degree is a A and who has never taught, says he first felt "a little -ell conscious almut his degree Hut I have always felt intellectually strung I received an awfully gixx) internship at Stanford and Stephens 1 he faculty and administration have had our dif lerences Spragens acknowledges One of two linn's spragens thought ol quilting came when the faculty voted his wishes over a "policy question" in "I considered their vote a vote of no confidence and offered to tender mv resignation hut they didn't understand what was saving." he recalls (Mice they understood, they hanged their vote It was a policy issue, nothing that mportant but I didn should be tinkering ith aolicv a1 that tune Kaflier. live ve.irs into his administration, he con -idered resigning during the "most difficult period" of his Philadelphia is cracking down on people who dodge wage tax Co Assistant City Solicitor William Wolf said more than 2,000 people have taken advantage of the amnesty, which gained impetus during the summer and fall after the city' foreclosed on three New Jersey homes and sold two of them. Action now is under way in the New Jersey Legislature to halt the home seizures. Philadelphia also attached the bank accounts of 126 Navy Yard workers who owe $500,000 in wage taxes. "We recently grabbed a car in Jersey, just to show what we can do," Wolf said.

"We will go to the Navy Yard and look for cars. If we find property in Pennsylvania it's ours Wolf and Deputy City Solicitor Theodore McKee. who heads the tax recovery program, said most of the delinquents live in New Jersey, and nearly all are federal employees "A federal law provides that while a federal employee is subject to the local wage-tax the government won't deduct the tax without the employee's permission if he lives in another state," McKee said. "There are 60,000 federal employees who work in Philadelphia, and more than 55.000 have the wage tax withheld. Wolf said New Jersey residents "were lulled into believing they could get away without paying it, and they are still trying, but we are suing and we are winning.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) For 28 years William Gould refused to pay Philadelphia's wage tax, claiming it was 'taxation without representation." a popular slogan that spurred the American Revolution. But Gould, a resident of Moorestown, N.J. and past president of the Non-resident Taxpayers Association who. works at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, couldn't win his revolt. He finally surrendered Tuesday after city threats to seize his house, his car, his bank account He was the latest of hundreds of delinquents to start paying old tax debts under limited amnesty offered in spring by Mayor William Green to recover $23 million due the city.

Under amnesty, the city cancels penalties and interest. The number of wage tax delinquents is estimated at 23,000, dating back 40 years when the tax was adopted as a temporary 1 percent levy. It is now 4.3 percent. Today about half of the city's $1 billion budget comes from wage-tax revenues. Gould, who owed $7,421 since 1953, paid $1,855 down, pledged $150 monthly installments and agreed to have the 4.3 percent tax deducted from future earnings By giving in.

after losing one legal battle after another all the way to the Supreme Court, he saved about $6,000 in penalties and interest which had been added to his bill. "I feel the pressure brought on by the city is causing a number of people to submit to the city's wishes to pay the tax." said Gould. "Now that I am a taxpayer, no longer can Philadelphia shun me. They haven't heard the last from me. They are calling the amnesty turnout a victory.

That is far from the truth." Lawyer Michael Radbill, representing NRTA, said "we have a hard-core group of 2,000 to 3,000 who are going to fight to the bitter end," even though his clients were fined $24,000 $25 each for continuing to raise what Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Stanley Greenberg called dead legal issues. The Supreme Court held in March that non-residents must pay the tax. Greenberg warned Radbill to stop "taking up the time of the court misleading your clients," by advising them the tax is illegal. The judge extended the amnesty deadline to Nov. 30.

It had expired Nov. 3. A newspaper ad, signed by NRTA treasurer Caesar Ciccocelli, said NRTA does not endorse amnesty "and recommends that ail flonfetfjdjerrtjorrtinue to hold but for the Ultimate etlmjfation of the wage tax." "We must show the city we will not be intimidated by threats," the ad said. Proposed New Issue Kxpected to be offered on or about November 23, 1981 1,500,000 Shares Kentucky Utilities Company Common Stock Saturday, November 21 it at 1 0:30 A.M. Mr Mrs.

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But then the men found out that. Hey. they can do the said Mrs Ash. adding that more women in her company earn more than $50,000 a year than in any company in the world "1 think we're already on the road, and we'll get equal rights soon Women have gotten the gate open and their foot in the door. Even if it didn't pass, we are far enough down the road," she said She said she started her book in detailing all the opportunities lost to her because she was a woman.

Mrs. Ash, a widow ith three children, said it then occurred to her how to form her own dream company. Her recently completed book. "Mary Kay is aimed at women who need confidence, she said "1 wrote the book for the woman ith no hope, no profession, no training, who's stuck behind four walls and may be there the rest of her life unless someone rescues her," Mrs. Ash said "Maybe she didn't have the opportunity to go to college or get training in the field, and she feels she has to take abuse at home, or whatever.

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AP) Army officials want to redesign a proposed "no-shine" combat boot because the model now being tested causes bruises and wears out too fast. More than 700 soldiers at Fort Benning, home of the Army's Infantry School, have been wearing the boots since May as part of an extensive testing program. But the installation's Infantry Board reviewed the proposal on Oct. 23 and recommended that the experiment be junked. The Army's laboratory in Natick, has made a similar recommendation.

The boot's rough leather does not require polishing. It was developed in 1979 by Army engineers and was proposed as a replacement for the smooth-leather model currently worn by U.S. soldiers. Pending the outcome of the testing, the boot was tentatively scheduled to be issued nationwide in 1983. Douglas Swain, head of the footwear section at the Natick laboratory, said the sole of the boot has been found to wear out too quickly, among other problems.

Soldiers testing the boot at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland developed bruises, he said. "Why continue on any further when you know you have a problem?" Swain said. He said the recommendation to end the testing will go before a full review panel in Natick on Dec. 10. If the panel decides to scrap the test, then the Army will decide "whether a new boot needs to be developed or designed," said Maj.

Clarence Cat-chings, who has worked with the project here. Until a final decision is made, the testing will continue, he said. When the test began in May, Army officials said the boots had (he advantage of never needing polish and being more comfortable. The Army had discussed an initial purchase of 2.5 million pair at a cost of about $45 each. The test boots cost $138 per pair, according to the board The current smooth-leather boot costs $37.50 per pair.

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