IN 1977

President Carter’s decision on a new 1978 target price for wheat might trigger the first such payment to farmers since the program was started in 1973, Douglas County agriculture officials said. Carter had agreed after meeting with agriculture secretary Bob Bergland to raise the target price of wheat to $2.90 a bushel from his previous recommendation of $2.60.

A main engine at the Baldwin power plant was badly damaged by a fire that sent flames high into the air. No estimate of the damage was immediately available.

IN 1962

Capt. Bill Dotson, outstanding Kansas University miler, led the Jayhawks to a Kansas Relays and American intercollegiate record in the four-mile relay as the Kansas Relays’ main program got under way. Others on the team, clocked at 16:53.6, were Mike Fulghum, Bill Thornton and Ted Riesinger. Dotson was timed in 4:05.2 as the KU anchorman.

U.S. Rep. Bob Ellsworth, R-Lawrence, said during a visit here that he definitely favored building the Clinton Reservoir and would work for authorization of grants to get things moving.

IN 1902

On April 20, 1902, the Lawrence Journal noted, “The Atchison Globe didn’t like it because this paper punched it with a sharp stick for defending the meat trust. Its defense is that there are other trusts just as bad as the meat trust and says the steel trust is worse and robs the people more than does the meat trust. Let us see about that; how much of the product of the steel trust does the editor of the Globe purchase each year, or every day? How much does the average man purchase of the steel trust? Not a dollar a year.”