IN 1977 – A Lawrence detective and a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent were sent to Denver to question three people being sought for information in connection with the Nov. 28 slaying of a Lawrence variety store manager, Samuel C. Norwood. One of the men to be questioned was reported wanted in Lawrence in connection with an auto theft. Norwood had been manager of the local Woolworth store.

Officials for the Kansas Public Service (gas) Co. reiterated statements that the company was not making any attempt to interfere with an investigation of a fatal explosion and fire at Eighth and Massachusetts streets. Two men died in the incident at 747 Mass. and a natural gas leak appeared to have been a major factor.

IN 1962 – The Lawrence City Commission unanimously agreed to consider new guidelines for future proposals for industrial revenue bonds as an aid to attracting new industry. The commissioners were Rusty Springer, Ben Barteldes, Fred Cooper, Don McConnell and Jim Owens. They said potential “conflicts of interest” had to be considered carefully in all cases to make sure unfair competition would not be subsidized.

IN 1902 – From the Lawrence Daily World of Dec. 21, 1902: “Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Temperance Tornado who visited here after being released from a Topeka jail following a disturbance, is not crazy, as some think. She is very designing. Her new scheme is to put a syndicate back of her and thereby have the necessary fund and support to prosecute her notoriety campaign. …

“There is, sadly, always a wave of crime about Christmas-time here. One would think that such an occasion would inspire thoughtfulness and kindness but it acts in the reverse in too many cases. How lamentable that Christmas has lost some of its impressiveness and well as its sacredness. It is given over to worldly pleasures and the religious features are too often lost sight of.”