A group of meteorology students at Kansas University announced it would be issuing daily forecasts for the Lawrence area as part of their studies. Larry Cosgrove was spokesman for the group.

Chancellor Archie Dykes and other KU officials were to appear before the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee as the panel opened three days of hearings on the Kansas Board of Regents budget requests for fiscal year 1978.

The city commission took the first step toward issuance of up to $12.5 million in industrial revenue bonds for the newly announced Quaker Oats Co. pet foods plant in the Santa Fe Industrial Subdivision.

IN 1962

When thousands of tons of ice chunks settled over the 600 acres of the Clyde Husted farm near Williamstown of Jan. 29, Husted predicted it would be at least a month before they all melted. He was far too conservative. The ice, caused by floes from the swollen Kaw River, was still 9 feet high in spots, and debris caught up in the glacier-like action littered the pock-marked territory.

IN 1902

On Feb. 17, 1902, the Lawrence Journal had a comment by “Defender” regarding the impending city-authorized killing of the English sparrow bird that had become so prevalent. “There are two points of view in this sparrow question, that of the man who ‘loveth best all things both great and small,’ and that of the utilitarian, and the former is responsible for as many things that make this old world a pleasant place to live as the latter. Mr. Sparrow, as well as having tucked away countless slippery maple worms that might otherwise have been the downfall of man, is a valuable scavenger and takes into himself innumerable scraps in which the typhoid fever expert could find as many germs as the enemies of our bright chirper finds qualities that menace the peace of mankind in his fluffy little body. And his bravery and pluck and cheerfulness in the face of cold and hunger, as we have looked out at him from the warm side of the window pane, should win a kindly impulse in his direction now when spring is coming and he is telling all his relatives and friends that their hardship is over and better days are at hand, with no whisper to reach his little soul of the Quantrill raid that is brewing for him.”