IN 1962

Spring semester enrollment in 1962 at Kansas University was due to reach a record 9,900, according to registrar James Hitt.

James Pearson, Kansas Republican attorney, took his oath of office as a U.S. senate appointee to replace the deceased Andrew Schoeppel.

IN 1902

On Feb. 7, 1902, the Lawrence Journal editorially attacked the Douglas County commission: “Two members of the board of county commissioners put what they believed to be the finishing touches on the courthouse location last night by voting to ‘accept’ the site on south Massachusetts street, near the park. Of course, the commissioners understand that they did this in violation of nine-tenths of the taxpayers of the county, but as Jack Watts has repeatedly said in effect, ‘Damn the people; I know what I want’; it has been a foregone conclusion for some time that if it was in their power to locate it there would do it … The taxpayers were given to understand long ago that the courthouse would be located at the south end, regardless of consequences, and that determination could not be changed even if the city should give the whole north half of the town to the county for a site.” The site chosen was the Watkins site on the southeast corner of Quincy (now 11th) and Massachusetts streets. J.B. Watkins had offered this site for free where the other seven proposed all had price tags ranging from $2,000 to $12,000. The Watkins site had met with strong opposition for being ‘several blocks from the business portion of the town.’

Courtesy Watkins Community Museum