IN 1977

A motion to move the murder trial of James Gardner, 18, out of Douglas County was filed in district court. Gardner’s attorney, James Rumsey, said he believed pre-trial prejudice was sufficient to prevent a fair trial. Gardner and his brother, Joseph, were charged in the Feb. 6 slaying of Margaret M. Maxey, 46. Both was in custody without bond.

Parents who abuse children were frequently themselves victims of parental abuse, a specialist from the Menninger Foundation told a group of educators in Lawrence. The speaker was Barbara Cavallin. “How we approach adulthood depends on how we saw adults in our childhood,” she said. “Many of these (abusive) parents were abused children.”

IN 1962

The Kaw Valley Drainage District planned to ask the city commission for sponsorship of a $3.5 million levee expansion project along the Kansas River in cooperation with the federal government.

IN 1902

On April 3, 1902, the Lawrence Journal told of the departure of a valued librarian Mary Simpson. Serving for 17 years, the Journal noted, “She know every book on her shelves from title page to ‘finis,’ and just as well she knew the bent of the mind of every reader, so that whatsoever any one came with the never-ending question, ‘What shall I read?,’ she knew where to go, and what book to take from the shelf. And it is with full and loving eyes that Lawrence bids her goodbye, for in every heart here she has a place, and by everyone she was looked upon as friend.”