IN 1977 – With the $3 to $3.05 per bushel target price Congress was considering for 1978 wheat, some Kansas farmers “might be able to make a little money,” according to John Junior Armstrong, president of the Kansas Farm Bureau. Said Armstrong in a talk here: “It’s high time the farmers got some breaks!” He drew hearty backing from agriculture people.

The city and its uniformed employees had encountered a number of items of impasse in negotiations centering on the employees’ bid for higher salary increases than the city said it could afford.

A $5,000 housing study received at City Hall suggested allocating the city’s housing assistance funds overwhelmingly in east and north Lawrence sections and recommended varied assistance programs ranging from code enforcement to housing subsidies.

William Balfour, former vice chancellor for student affairs at Kansas University, was officially to assume the assignment of university ombudsman upon his return from vacation in Minnesota on Aug. 17. He was to act as a sort of “troubleshooter” for the school, and had been the only applicant for the newly created “public relations” job.

IN 1962 – A terribly low voter turnout was anticipated for the primary election here.

Parallel parking for the south portion of the downtown business district was being discussed.

Sidney and Rachel Feldman, 835 Highland Drive, filed suit against a local gas-oil agency for damages caused by seepage of petroleum products into their basement from tanks at a nearby service station around Ninth and Iowa streets.

The city commission rejected Capitol Ambulance Service’s request for a $450-a-month subsidy. The decision was that the service would have to make the grade on its own merits and that the city could not afford the request.

Dr. Frances Kelsey of the FDA said she was alerted by chance to the dangers of thalidomide, a German tranquilizer and birth control commodity. She said she planned roadblocks for future use. Thalidomide was judged to be causing malformed children.

IN 1902 – On Aug. 5, 1902, the Lawrence Journal commented “The women of Denver have gone into court to prove their right to drink as often and as much as they please. With women, as with men, the danger comes from club drinking.”