IN 1977

Charging that “the responsibility for any disruption in services rests squarely on the shoulders of the city commission,” the leaders of the Lawrence Police Officers Assn. moved to take what they called “concerted actions” to force a break in their deadlock with the city about 1978 contract negotiations. The firefighters, also involved in the bargaining, did not indicate there would be any comparable action on their part.

The Kansas Board of Tax Appeals denied the Lawrence school district’s request for extra money to pay utility bills. The decision, a surprise to district officials, was to be appealed. Lawrence had asked for an extra $134,400 from the school finance bill.

IN 1962

Dwight Metzler, Lawrence, was named new executive secretary of the Kansas Water Resources Board, which had headquarters in Topeka. Metzler was a recognized authority on water resources and had been on the Kansas University faculty.

IN 1902

On Aug. 28, 1902, a comment of the Topeka Capital was reprinted in the Lawrence Journal. The Capital stated, “People frequently wonder how it happens that it is all right for a dentist to advertise, while it is not considered the proper thing for a physician to do so.” The Journal commented, “It is the matter of the paving of dollars to the physician. Ever see a doctor who kicked when he was mentioned as being called to attend to an important case? Did you ever get roasted for saying that Doctor Saddlebags was ‘The foremost physician of the country?’ Not on your shirt waist. And if some one gets a leg broken and you fail to say in your write-up that ‘under the skillful care of Dr. Jiggs the victim is rapidly recovering from the fatal mishap,’ then Dr. Jiggs will light down on you like a blue jay on an English sparrow and want to know what in several things you are cutting him out for. No indeed, it is a gross error to think that physicians object to advertising. They are men, those of them who are not women, just like the rest of us, and they like to see their names in print and hear their skill praised just as other people do. But they have erected around their profession an imaginary fence, and on that fence they have printed ‘Post No Bills. The Great Doctor Sawbones lives here, and he can’t stand advertising. Calls promptly attended night or day.’ But the doctors are not really the timorous, blushing, shrinking things they would make the world believe. They like advertising, and they want it want it bad, but they don’t want it as other people do.”