The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 8

Pat 8A THE WICHITA EAGLE Friday February 13 1970 Charlie Brown Stays Alive Well Threat of Bank GOP Senators 59H? Delmar DEBS With Blah Personality Providing Hit To a Senator Told by Arvin WITH LOVE FROM CHARLIE BROWN HnM a Charm Schultz! "Pee-nute" characters and from the musical plav "You're a Good Man Charlie Brawn" directed and adapted by Betty Abeuealei costumes by Helen THE SHOW IS plotless but crabby" she tells her thumb sucking brother Linus (Kim Wheatcroft) "The crabby Put Tax Plans In New Shape Frebsti eat by Ron Wilson lights by Glenn Read Fat Janas pianist! playing at the Wichita State University Fit Theatre through Saturday Fab 14 at tun Additional per 10: pj pjn Saturday Chartle Brawn Dave Stone Fatty Nang Grant Lucy Monica Schirtnsr Linus Kim Whaatcroft Ron Wilson FAIR SHOI STORES 135 Bdwy 700 Harry Sanuca Kcu-Mar Cuuuint KRINKLE PATENT LOAFERS LHtlo Hoc la for If ff Tho In Crowd A Left WINTER CASUALS ly Rad laU MR APr not pointless as the many little vignettes are loaded with humor and poignancy In the WSU production the always ef-ive but the humor is brought over with a fine sense of comic timing favorite in the show is destined to be Ron Wilson who is privileged to play the Immortal Beagle Snoopy HIS LINES ARE funny all 'the way through but the absolute show-stopper involves a canine vaudeville routine wherein Snoopy croons and soft-shoes his way into our hearts bursting with-joy that Charlie Brown has brought his supper The sequence i screamingly funny and performance is first-rate all the way Whoever is responsible for choreography deserves a bouquet of odoriferous rhododendrums a great routine Monica Schirmer as crabby Lucy Van Pelt also is very good very snotty and very funny proud of being girls of today are the crabby women of STONE AS Charlie Brown has the most difficult role He has to be both pitiful and funny and unins Charlie Chaplin rather hard Most of his scenes tra sad rather than funny (or rather than both)' The show is not without a few failures The Socrates thyself' routine falls rather flat for example But at heart and overall it succeeds quite a bit thanks in large measure to Wilson as Snoopy I was a dog today a dog tomorrow still be a deg so little hope for THE FINAL song is real happiness mighty pretty in itself and they do it mighty well hesitate to attend One word of warning though: The show contains a scene at the end of which Snoopy kisses Lucy Clean thinking people especially in the city government will want to think long and hard as to whether this meets the moral standards of the'community It's only a few seconds though and in subdued light so perhaps it might pass the obscenity test of our more discriminating theatre-goers Frsm The Tspeka Bereae TOPEKA Sen Lester Arvin R-Rose Hill charged Thursday that another senator has been threatened by a bank representative if he votes for bills which would increase taxes paid by financial institutions want to make a said Arvin after hearing testimony against the bills senator has been threatened by a representative of a bade that his loans will be called if he vote against these ARVIN DECLINED to elaborate on this charge made in hearings being held by the Senate Taxation and Assessment Committee The heard -testimony from representatives' of various banks and savings and loan associations opposing features of three bills that would eliminate certain exemptions held by the institutions ss well as raise some tax rates for these institutions The bankers contended that the increased taxes would be particularly harsh burden because of the current tight money market and other economic factors adversely affecting the industry The committee adjourned without taking action By BARRY PARIS Eagle Staff Writer days are getting shorter" says Charlie Brown in a reflective mood sometimes they seem a lot The eternal fall guy with the blah personality is alive and well all his funny blah-do m-at Wichita State University Experimental Theatre FIVE ACTORS with Dave Stone in the title role- do an awfully good Job of making an evening a very entertaining and amusing one indeed What an influence artist Charles Schultz has had on us all! The Peanuts gang now appears everywhere from T-shirts to greeting cards and cocktail napkins A real cultural phenomenon Love From Charlie Brown" is a slice or three from the off-Broadway show By AL POLCZINSKI Of The Topeka Boren TOPEKA Senate Republicans rewrapped a tax package Thursday It is Intended to finance (26 million in additional state aid to schools and the (4 million homestead tax relief plan Sen Glee Smith R-Larned Senate president (no tern told newsmen after a party caucus that there appeared to bs enough sentiment among GOP senators to carry in the package SMITH SAID the senators also had decided to delay consideration of property tax-lid proposals until they see how the House acts next week on similar proposals Gov Robert tax-lid dan was sent out of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee Thursday without recommendation It will be up for debate Wednesday Smith said one new revenue measure was recommended for the tax package The addition is a plan to extend the ales tax to services related to the sale of goods Included in this category would be repair services where' parts now are subject to the sales tax but the labor to install' the parts is not OTHER EXAMPLES include tailoring shoe repair watch and jewelry repair and heating plpmbing carpentry painting and other home construction work Revenue to be gained by extending the sales tax to these services is estimated at (55 million 4 On Monday after another party caucus Smith said the GOP group had selected a number of tax measures which would have raised an estimated (176 of the (30 million needed for the two programs Hie remainder of the money Smith said would be obtained through tax receipts which exceed estimates this year and from the reserve balances THE MONDAY package developed a hole in it on Wednesday when one of the items a 35 per cent tax on tobacco products killed by the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee Deleting the (21 million the tobacco-products tax would have raised and ailing the (55 million from the sales tax on' services brought the new package up to about (21 million Smith said it still is possible that some items included in the package may not win final approval but that there was agreement on most of them Other measures included in the tax package are a premiums tax on domestic insurance companies a 2V4 per cent' Surtax on corporate income over (25000 a Vk per cent surtax on financial institutions a 2-cent hike in cigarette tax and the elimination of the income tax exemption for Kansas corporate and -bank dividends Friday 13th Sale KITCHEN CABINETS 20 Off OABINET TOPS pir fool VANITY CABINETS 20 Off KITCHEN AID DISHWASHERS aid DISPOSERS VENT HOODS aad FANS STAINLESS STEEL SINKS Ml floor Miopias aid Mdria -Radgead ap la S0 OFF -Y Coma fo 1313 Harry WICHITA CABINET CO INC SMI PRICES ROOD THROUGH 2-21-10 THE FUN PLACE 10 SHOP FOR THE ENTIRE FAMIIY mm Bill to Share Taxes on Fuel Survives Attack by Rural Ax DopprPoBi SBLF-ADHBOIVB special-fuels taxes a r- marked for use on city and county roads and streets Urban representatives from both parties are supporting a bill which dumps additional funds intp the laps of the pities with the largest cities reaping the greatest benefits Increases for Uie cities would be at the expense of many rural counties Sedgwick County including its cities would receive (41 million under the urban plan but only (34 million under compromise The total presently is (3 million TOPEKA Rural members of the House Roads and Highways Committee were blocked Thursday in their effort to push through s' compromise formula for distributing motor-fuel taxes to cities and counties Their action was aimed at counteracting an urban-ori-ented bill sponsored' by 67 representatives That bill would reorganize the formula to provide more dollars for the populous areas of the state AT STAKE Is (28 million in State-collected gasoline and I IlH I of World's Finest Mattresses 99 SAVE UP fO PWl 9 A 7 OR MORE UNO DAY FIB IS IP WaMrebcM Committee raiatln itlng and Meant to tho Kansas Highway Ways FatraL memorial Izlng the United Hater Congress la Unruh ltudv of the paariMfltlM1 at afliyl alcohol production from wheit HCRIMI-K Unruh to amend a aactlin ortho State Constitution relating to Super King Size 78" 80" Reeg3r $329" You Save Covered with Flame Retard adi dlstfngul tfnguimU i Mtvko to ot ol commanding Gen Lawli Walt USMC tor hli hla country Principal and Income Act relating la the height and Matarial Extra Firm BUM Parsed jm-Suck relating to exempt property Kay concerning the Revised Uniform Pr Education Committee concerning public Si 7-TrMNWortatton and UtliitlM Committee Commlttoo concern! 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