Legislative Papers of Donald Bell, Kansas, 1967-1971
Collection Summary
| Title: | Legislative Papers of Donald Bell, Kansas, 1967-1971 |
| Call Number: | MS 74-15 |
| Size: | 5.5 linear feet |
| Acquisition: | Donated by Donald Bell |
| Processed by: | MDH, 7-29-1974; SMC, 2-18-1998 |
| Note: | Collection stored in off-site facility. Contact Special Collections regarding retrieval. |
| Restrictions: | None |
Literary Rights
Literary rights were not granted to Wichita State University. When permission is granted to examine the manuscripts, it is not an authorization to publish them. Manuscripts cannot be used for publication without regard for common law literary rights, copyright laws and the laws of libel. It is the responsibility of the researcher and his/her publisher to obtain permission to publish. Scholars and students who eventually plan to have their work published are urged to make inquiry regarding overall restrictions on publication before initial research.
Content Note
The Legislative Papers of Donald Bell are primarily concerned with educational finance and taxation. The collection also contains files on such topics as metropolitan law enforcement, abortion, strip mining, and other miscellaneous correspondence. The Bell collection spans the years of 1967 to 1971.
Biography
Donald Alfred Bell was born July 13, 1928 in Wichita, Kansas. A lawyer, he represented District 68 in 1965, 1966, and Special Session 1966 and District 79 in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970. He was Majority Floor Leader in 1969. He was married to Eleanor Harriet Van Gleson.. On November 12, 1985, he died from injuries received in airplane crash. (Source: Kansas Legislators Past & Present, State Library of Kansas)
Detailed Description: Series Listing
| Series 1 | Box 1-Box 11 | Subject Files. Some correspondence is included. |
Detailed Description: Box and Folder Listing
Series 1 ‒ Subject Files
| Box 1 | FF 1-3 | Abortion -- 1969 |
| Box 1 | FF 4 | Abortion Information -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 5 | Arts and Cultural Reports -- 1968-1969 |
| Box 1 | FF 6 | Bill Amendments -- House and Senate, 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 7 | Bill Locators -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 8 | Bill Pertaining to Regulation and Inspection of Meat and Poultry -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 9 | Bingo (Correspondence) -- 1970 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 10 | Bill Locators -- 1970 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 11 | Civil Service -- State Employee Salary Raises 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 12 | Conference Committee Assignments -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 13 | Corporation Nomenclature -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 14 | Credit Rating and Job Protection -- Bill and Information 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 15 | Cross- Busing (Correspondence) 1970 |
| Box 1 | FF 16-18 | Education -- 1969 Session |
| Box 1 | FF 19 | Education -- 1970 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 1-2 | Education (Correspondence) -- 1968 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 3 | Education -- Financing the State Junior Colleges 1969 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 4 | Education (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 2 | FF 5-7 | Education -- House Education Committee -- 1969 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 8-9 | Education -- House Education Committee Work 1970 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 10 | Education -- Legislative Proposal to Decrease Wichita Board of Education from 12 to 7 -- 1969 Session |
| Box 2 | FF 11 | Education -- Legislative Recommendations on Education 1969 Session |
| Box 3 | FF 1 | Education -- Non-public Schools in Kansas -- Their Relation to Public Schools -- 1970 Session |
| Box 3 | FF 2 | Education -- Proposals for State School Finance -- 1969 |
| Box 3 | FF 3 | Education -- Public School Data Rankings -- 1967-1968 |
| Box 3 | FF 4 | Education -- Public School Report -- 1968-1969 |
| Box 3 | FF 5 | Education -- Questionnaire Pertaining to School Financing and Freedom of Choice in Schools -- 1969 |
| Box 3 | FF 6 | Education -- Small School Closure -- 1969 Session |
| Box 3 | FF 7 | Education -- Small School Closure (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 3 | FF 8 | Education -- Small School Closure -- (Form Letters Pertaining to) -- 1970 Session |
| Box 3 | FF 9 | Education -- Small Schools -- Information -- 1968-1970 |
| Box 3 | FF 10 | Equal Opportunity Employment Bill |
| Box 3 | FF 11 | Expansion of Legislative Facilities and Office Space 1969 Session |
| Box 3 | FF 12-16 | Fiscal Notes From Budget Director -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 1-2 | Fiscal Notes From Budget Director -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 3-5 | Fiscal Notes From Budget Director -- 1970 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 6 | Fluoridation (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 4 | FF 7 | "Goggle and Helmet Laws" (Correspondence) -- 1969 |
| Box 4 | FF 8 | Health Insurance Bills -- (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 4 | FF 9 | Health -- Plan for Kansas Home Fallout Protection -- 1967 |
| Box 4 | FF 10 | Health -- Proposals for a Community Health Program for Wichita -- 1968 |
| Box 4 | FF 11 | House Bills (General) -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 12 | House Bills on Education and Libraries -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 13 | House Calendar #42 -- March 12, 1970, Senate Calendar #44 -- March 13, 1970 |
| Box 4 | FF 14 | Invitations and Activities -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 15 | Journal of Kansas Legislative Council -- 1970 |
| Box 4 | FF 16 | Judiciary Committee (Correspondence) -- 1969 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 17 | Judiciary Committee (Correspondence) -- 1970 Session |
| Box 4 | FF 18 | Kansas Highway System (Maps) |
| Box 5 | FF 1 | Kansas State Athletic Handbook -- 1967-1968 |
| Box 5 | FF 2 | Kansas Tax Facts -- 1967 |
| Box 5 | FF 3 | Land Resources Information -- 1962 |
| Box 5 | FF 4-5 | Legislative Services and Facilities Committee 1969 Session |
| Box 5 | FF 6 | Legislative Services and Facilities Committee 1970 Session |
| Box 5 | FF 7 | Library Funding -- 1969 |
| Box 5 | FF 8 | Liquor by the Drink (Correspondence) -- 1967 |
| Box 5 | FF 9-10 | Local Government Studies -- 1966 |
| Box 5 | FF 11 | Lottery and Pari-mutual Betting -- 1969-1970 |
| Box 5 | FF 12 | Manpower Program -- 1969 |
| Box 5 | FF 13 | Message From Governor Docking t"Report to the People" -- 1967 |
| Box 5 | FF 14 | Messages from the Governor to the Legislature 1969 Session |
| Box 5 | FF 15-17 | Metropolitan Law Enforcement -- 1967 Session |
| Box 6 | FF 1 | Metropolitan Law Enforcement -- 1968 Session |
| Box 6 | FF 2-3 | Metropolitan Law Enforcement Agency Bill -- 1969 Session |
| Box 6 | FF 4 | Mines and Mining Committee Minutes -- 1967 |
| Box 6 | FF 5 | Mines and Mining Committee Minutes -- 1968 |
| Box 6 | FF 6-11 | Mines and Mining Committee -- Strip Mining -- 1967 Session |
| Box 7 | FF 1-2 | Mines and Mining Committee -- Strip Mining -- 1967 Session |
| Box 7 | FF 3-4 | Miscellaneous Correspondence -- 1968 |
| Box 7 | FF 5-8 | Miscellaneous Correspondence -- 1969 Session |
| Box 7 | FF 9 | Miscellaneous Correspondence and Documents 1969 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 1-2 | Miscellaneous Correspondence -- 1970 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 3 | Miscellaneous Correspondence and Documents 1970 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 4 | Miscellaneous Correspondence -- 1970 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 5 | Preliminary Summary of Bills -- 1969 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 6 | Presidential Welfare Reform -- 1969 |
| Box 8 | FF 7 | Public Health and Welfare -- 1970 |
| Box 8 | FF 8 | Ramifications of the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act on Kansas -- 1969 |
| Box 8 | FF 9 | Regulation of Radio Common Carriers -- 1968 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 10 | Republican Party Publications -- 1969 |
| Box 8 | FF 11 | Requests to Page in House -- 1970 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 12 | Requirements for CPA (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 8 | FF 13 | Resolutions by Mr. Bell -- 1969 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 14 | Right to Work Legislation (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 8 | FF 15 | Rules and Procedure in Legislature (Information) -- 1969 |
| Box 8 | FF 16 | Sanitation Regulations -- 1969-1970 |
| Box 8 | FF 17 | Sections Amended or Repealed in More Than One Bill 1970 Session |
| Box 8 | FF 18 | Sedgwick County (Correspondence) -- 1969 |
| Box 8 | FF 19 | Sedgwick County (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 8 | FF 20 | Sedgwick County -- Proposed Study of ADP Used in Sedgwick County -- 1968 |
| Box 9 | FF 1 | Sex Education -- 1969 |
| Box 9 | FF 2-3 | State Bulletins and Newsletters -- 1969 Session |
| Box 9 | FF 4-5 | State and Federal Bulletins and Newsletters -- 1969 Session |
| Box 9 | FF 6 | State Bulletins and Newsletters -- 1970 |
| Box 9 | FF 7 | State Roads and Highways -- 1969 |
| Box 9 | FF 8 | Status of Bills in Committee -- April 3, 1969 |
| Box 9 | FF 9 | Tax (Information) -- 1968 -- Forwarded to Committee of Mines and Mining -- 1969 Session |
| Box 9 | FF 10-12 | Taxation -- 1969 Session |
| Box 9 | FF 13 | Taxation (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 10 | FF 1 | Taxation -- Fuel and Road Taxation -- 1969 |
| Box 10 | FF 2 | Taxation -- Letters Pertaining to Taxation -- Forwarded From Editor Wichita Eagle and Beacon to House -- 1969 Session |
| Box 10 | FF 3 | Taxation -- Motor Vehicle Taxation -- 1967 |
| Box 10 | FF 4 | Taxation -- Regulaton of Cities in Taxing for Construction Purposes -- 1969 |
| Box 10 | FF 5 | Taxation -- Research Documents and Proposals Concerning Intangibles Tax -- 1967 Session |
| Box 10 | FF 6 | Taxation -- Tax Lid -- 1970 |
| Box 10 | FF 7-9 | Teacher Negotiation Status -- 1968 Session |
| Box 10 | FF 10 | Teacher Retirement -- 1969 Session |
| Box 10 | FF 11 | Teacher Retirement (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 10 | FF 12 | Trading Stamp Study -- 1965 |
| Box 10 | FF 13 | Transportation and Utilities -- 1970 Session |
| Box 11 | FF 1-4 | Urban Affairs Committee -- 1967 |
| Box 11 | FF 5 | Vietnam War -- 1967 |
| Box 11 | FF 6 | Vocational Education -- 1968 Session |
| Box 11 | FF 7 | Vocational Education -- State Plan -- 1964 |
| Box 11 | FF 8 | Vocational Education -- State Plan -- 1969 Session |
| Box 11 | FF 9 | Wichita -- 1969 Session |
| Box 11 | FF 10 | Wichita (Correspondence) -- 1970 |
| Box 11 | FF 11 | Wichita State University (Correspondence) -- 1969 |